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[zenko]

Caitlin is making a Vancouver community transportation map for her class this semester. They are focusing on sustainable transportation (biking, walking, transit), and she is specifically dealing with cycling. She has covered the obvious things (bike routes, stores for cheap/used bike gear and maintenance, bike lockers, bikes on transit), and

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[apropos]

Ooh... gas stations with (working) air pumps.

[joocelyn]

the bike rack thing is a good idea.

maybe also include places that bikes are likely to get stolen. i suppose that's all over vancouver, though.

will the map show elevation? :D

[zenko]

They might mark hills. It is a relatively ambitious undertaking, especially if they respect copyright and don't just lift the information from a commercial map.

[tovegirl]

what program is she doing? sounds interesting.

[zenko]

She's in the SFU Semester in Dialogue, which is a 9-5 single course (15 credit course!), usually on some topic to do with sustainability.

the obvious things

[reluctance]

HILLS. (hm, jocelyn caught that.)

unofficial shortcuts. storm drains that turn into lakes in rainy weather, red light that cars plow through all the time (conversely, dangerous roundabouts on bike routes that soccer moms in SUVs feel entitled to go through the wrong way), high bike-theft area. (joce also caught that; free air pumps were caught by bro.)

I'm heavily revisiting territory suggested by my scheme for urban cyclist warchalk hobo glyphs.

Re: the obvious things

[zenko]

Hmm, OK, any suggestions as to these?

(ie, unofficial shortcuts, flooding spots, danger areas...)

any suggestions as to these?

[reluctance]

Ask me again when I'm back on two wheels 8) (not terribly useful for this presumably time-sensitive project, alas.)

danger areas...

Public enemy number one here is where the Ontario route crosses 1st; I once watched a train of four SUVs barrel through at high speed the space that by all legal rights my bike ought to have been occupying. Thank goodness for spidey-sense.

If you're interested in potentially a LOT of suggestions, you could take this query to the velolove list.

the velolove list.

[reluctance]

An alternative so low-impact as to be effectively no-impact would be the LJ "vancouverbike" community.

[subnuminous]

Places to get good biking food. Before they moved, I would have suggested the Que Pasa factory as an example.

Also, for elevation data: http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/vanmap/