Safer Cycling Amongst Mapzen

Mapzen's novel Bike Map tin forcefulness out attention you lot navigate a safer way to cycle. The Bike Map colors roads as well as wheel paths based on 3 dissimilar tiers of safety, allowing you lot to say 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

As good every bit grading the security of wheel routes the Bike Map every bit good includes particular wheel icons to present locations that are useful for cyclists. These include wheel parking, wheel rentals, wheel repair stations, wheel shops, drinking water, toilets, cafes, as well as pubs.

The Bike Map uses information from Open Street Map. This agency that the map plant for anywhere inwards the world. It every bit good agency that if you lot don't scream back the map is accurate plenty inwards your expanse you lot tin forcefulness out better the map past times contributing to Open Street Map.

If you lot desire to role the Bike Map inwards your ain maps you lot can! You but remove to add together the Walkabout basemap mode to a Tangram map as well as plow on the wheel tier data. The Mapzen Blog has to a greater extent than details on how to add together the Bike Map to your ain maps. It every bit good has to a greater extent than details on how the map was designed as well as the other biking features that you lot tin forcefulness out discovery on the Bike Map basemap.