...okay it's a 5° climb for 0.3 miles but why is the lowest-traffic way out of downtown Kirkland which takes you east _over_ 405 _not_ on the Eastside 2 Line Connector map?

It's even painted as sharrowed

ETA: OH WAIT WAIT I GET IT OKAY my bad

this is part of the changes they made in map marking that I dislike. it's totally there. a little bit of it is _wrong_, but it's there. and regardless, I can improve it, so I will in 2.0.9

#maps #GreaterNorthshore #megamap #BikeTooter #BikeMap

Gonna drop a new bike map rev, but it's all just more caution/construction warning updates. The Burke-Gilman 5-day closure in Kenmore, NE 125th in Lake City getting all that work done (and it's gonna be great but right now it's, uh, yeah), and Kirkland's sewer problems just continue.

On the plus side, NE 124th also in Kirkland properly wrapped up, so it loses its warning, and the closure of Eastrail near the Seahawks practice facility is also long over.

Gonna see if there are any surprises in the Friday round of construction updates, and if there's something to incorporate I will.

I really thought Kenmore would be done with 61st Ave NE by now. But nope. Alas.

#BikeMap #GreaterNorthshore #MEGAMAP #maps #biking #BikeTooter

I've got errands to run but have a quick release notice anyway, I'll do a real one later:

BIKE MAPS 1.7.1 RELEASE

Greater Northshore
MEGAMAP

See the README for details.

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap

#BikeMap #art #seattle #northshore #GreaterNorthshore #MEGAMAP #BikeTooter #biking

GitHub - solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap: A bike infrastructure mapping project for NW King and SW Snohomish counties, The Greater Northshore Bike Map links the Seattle and 2 Line Eastside maps, making them all more useful. Printed, it folds as small as 4x8½". The MEGAMAP edition combines those maps plus Greater Newcastle into a large foldable poster for display or backpack use.

A bike infrastructure mapping project for NW King and SW Snohomish counties, The Greater Northshore Bike Map links the Seattle and 2 Line Eastside maps, making them all more useful. Printed, it fol...

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2 Line Eastside Bike Connector updated their map to include the new train stations opening today! If you’re seeing this on May 10th, you can go to the opening events!

Naturally, we’ve picked up the new version, and both Greater Northshore Bike Connector and MEGAMAP 1.7 – 10 May 2025 – are now available to download.

But this time, I have something to think about.

They've gone and changed their map key on me, and I'm not entirely sure what to do about that.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2025/05/10/maps-release-greater-northshore-bike-connector-megamap-1-7-and-a-quandary/

#biking #maps #GreaterNorthshore #MEGAMAP #seattle #northshore #cascadia #shoreline #LakeForestPark #kenmore #juanita #bothell #woodinville #redmond #SnohomishCounty #KingCounty #Edmonds #MountlakeTerrace #Lynnwood #Briar #Maltby

Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 1.7, and a quandary – Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected

it’s a proper poster ratio now

all the margins are the same against the black foamcore

(ignore the weird indent on the upper left this is a quick and crude paste-up on an older map)

#maps #BikeMap #art #seattle #GreaterNorthshore #megamap

A while ago I experimented a bit with different rescale-enlargements of the Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP bike maps. I posted some pics but they weren't consistently sized or distanced, so I fixed that. All of these are from my phone camera at a fixed distance away and are cropped down to the same physical size subset.

#BikeMap #GreaterNorthshore #MEGAMAP #maps

BTW, I dropped in a little slipstream update for the MEGAMAP just now - same version numbering on the map itself but I hadn't quite closed the gap on the Elliot Bay / Waterfront in the south. So now I have.

#BikeMap #seattle #WaterfrontTrail #ElliotBay #ElliotBayTrail #MEGAMAP #maps #art

waterfront trail is 100% open today ^_^

map update tonight!

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