maps

[eub]

Do you have a favorite high-detail road map of Seattle? With information like "this is an overpass, not an intersection", or "all traffic must turn right here", or "there is a blockade built diagonally across here".

How about a topo map with streets overlaid, for bike route planning? Or actually, I was thinking maybe the way to do the map is with streets colored by steepness, green-yellow-red, and the ground colored by height, maybe blue-gray up to light gray.

Comments

[mh75.livejournal.com]

You can buy topo maps at REI. You should be able to get a topo map covering Seattle. Also, in our car, we have a book with topo maps of Washington. The book covers Seattle. In the book, however, road information is harder to see.

A bicyclist map is a good idea. It could include information on where there were bike lanes, and shoulders. I don't know if such a thing exists, however.

[katybeth]

http://transit.metrokc.gov/bike/bikeresources.html
has a link to the King County Bicycling Guide Map (which it says is also available at REI) as well as other bicycling resources.

[mh75.livejournal.com]

Hey Katy,

you're cool. Thanks. =)

[eub.livejournal.com]

Oh, the county bike map is nice; I'll have to get a hardcopy. And I'll see what the city map looks like... (the Transit's "mail bus maps to you" service is stunningly fast; maybe this is as quick.)