Project: 2019 Print Bike Map

atdservicebot commented 4 years ago

A complete overhaul of Austin Transportation's print bicycle map for 2019.

Description

The City of Austin publishes a print version of the bike map every year. The bike map shows the recommended routes for bicycling, and it displays them by level of comfort so that they may be useful for people of all ages and abilities. The bike map is a collaboration between Active Transportation & Street Design, Public Information Office and the Data & Technology Services Team at Austin Transportation Department. The map is currently being printed and will be distributed for free through ATD, libraries, and bike shops.

Resources

cityofaustin/atd-geospatial/issues/73 Mapping Comfort Four Types of Cyclists

Migrated from atd-geospatial #73

atdservicebot commented 4 years ago

From alan-deanda on 2019-06-10:

• Learned that many new subdivisions and streets are missing from bike map (last GIS import seems to be mine from 2014). • Started querying data to import new streets and created templates for import into AI • Refine streets template for import into AI - it doesn't align perfectly well despite following scale levels and document size conventions found in bike map folder in G Drive. • Simplify street geometry once in AI • Update missing streets • Work on simpler symbology to potentially combine stroke and shadow into single line. The fact that they are split into separate geometries causes several issues:

The map is hard to work on due to all the overlapping lines (especially for new people)
We end up with duplicate geometries that make the map messy
The map loads more slowly

Sophia Benner may need to leave project to focus on other work, and I may need to update the front of the map as well the as the back.

atdservicebot commented 4 years ago

From alan-deanda on 2019-10-02:

Updates:

Still working on basemap issues
Sophia Benner will concentrate on infographics, and I will continue to update the map itself

Upcoming tasks:
[x] Finish updating missing streets and labels
[ ] Define symbology for trails on which dockless mobility devices are not allowed on
[x] Simplify document (this will be a long task that may need to happen post current update)

atdservicebot commented 4 years ago

From johnclary on 2019-08-21:

@alan-deanda i added the Index label to this project. would you update the description to match our project template?

atdservicebot commented 4 years ago

From alan-deanda on 2019-08-21:

@johnclary I've updated the description to match the project template. Would it be more to spec to create a Project Index issue in the atd-datatech repo that cites this issue (currently in geospatial) as a reference?

atdservicebot commented 4 years ago

From johnclary on 2019-08-21:

@alan-deanda good catch. Yes, please do exactly that!

alan-deanda commented 4 years ago

The 2020 Edition of Austin's Print Bike Map has been completed and it will be printed, proofed and published / released in the near future.

alan-deanda commented 4 years ago

The 2020 Edition of the Austin Print Bike Map will be proofed this week. If everything goes smoothly, the map will be printed and distributed to Active Transportation, who will distribute it to bike shops and other interested parties. This edition of the bike map is free of cost.

alan-deanda commented 4 years ago

The 2020 Edition of the Austin Print Bike Map has been delivered to ATD! Sophia and ATSD will begin distributing the map to bike shops this week.

johnclary commented 4 years ago

@alan-deanda amazing. I want one! We'll keep my eye's peeled at CycleEast

cityofaustin / atd-data-tech