Re:Mapzen's new OpenStreetMap-powered bike map based on safety
by bengotow on Saturday March 18, 2017 @07:17PM
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This is awesome!
Color scheme is very strange though. I live in SF, and I imagine if you surveyed folks on the street, everyone would tell you blue is a "safer" color than orange.
Maybe it could follow the Google Maps standard—green, yellow, red (traffic)? They may be depicting a different metric more important to cyclists (safety), but the problem-solving approach is the same: try to take green / yellow routes and avoid red ones.
Color scheme is very strange though. I live in SF, and I imagine if you surveyed folks on the street, everyone would tell you blue is a "safer" color than orange.
Maybe it could follow the Google Maps standard—green, yellow, red (traffic)? They may be depicting a different metric more important to cyclists (safety), but the problem-solving approach is the same: try to take green / yellow routes and avoid red ones.