Stress Costless Cycle Maps

Montgomery County inwards Maryland has created a stress frees route planner for cyclists. The Bikeway Stress Levels map shows you lot the most together with to the lowest degree stressful streets for cycling inwards the county. It tin too computer program a route for you lot that avoids the most stressful roads.

To practise the map the Montgomery County Planning Department rated every unmarried route inwards the county based on how stressful it is for cyclists. The ratings are based on attributes similar "traffic speed, traffic volume, set out of lanes, frequency of parking turnover, relaxation of intersection crossings together with other characteristics".

The Bikeway Stress Levels interactive map shows the stress rating for each route yesteryear but coloring each route on the map yesteryear its assigned stress rating. If you lot guide a route on the map you lot tin persuasion details near the road, such every bit the set out of traffic lanes, the speed limit, whether in that place is on-street parking or whether in that place is a wheel lane.


Montgomery County's approach is really project intensive. To assign a stress degree to every route inwards the county the Planning Department assessed each route on Google Maps Street View together with visited many of the roads inwards person.

H5N1 quicker but less accurate method for assigning a cycling 'stress' or 'safety' rating to roads is to operate Open Street Map tags. Mapzen's Bike Map does just this to attention you lot navigate the safest way to cycle. The Mapzen Bike Map colors roads together with wheel paths based on 3 dissimilar tiers of safety, allowing you lot to nation at a glance which roads are the safest for cyclists.

The 3 tiers are:

• Green (safest) - off route wheel paths
• Orange (less safe) - on route wheel lanes
• Blue (least safe) - no wheel lanes

The Bike Map uses information from Open Street Map. This way that the map plant for anywhere inwards the world. It too way that if you lot don't scream upwardly the map is accurate plenty inwards your surface area you lot tin amend the map yesteryear contributing to Open Street Map.

If you lot desire to operate the Bike Map inwards your ain maps you lot can! You just involve to add together the Walkabout basemap mode to a Tangram map together with plow on the wheel tier data. The Mapzen Blog has to a greater extent than details on how to operate the Bike Map layer inwards your ain maps. It too has to a greater extent than details on how the map was designed together with the other biking features that you lot tin honour on the Bike Map basemap.