Cycling data on Google Transit

johnboy said :

A real problem is that it doesn’t distinguish between paint on the side of the road and a real bike path.

It tries to. Light green is “dedicated lane” dark green “trail”. The problem is that the data has been mangled, places where the “trail” (got to love those wacky Americanisms) is adjacent to a road they seem to have been marked as dedicated lanes by mistake. The “trails” also don’t distinguish between footpaths (enough for 1 bike) or cycle paths or dirt tracks (not suitable for road bikes).

Just had a quick look, I think it will be a good resource in the future (once the errors are fixed).

It does demonstrate, clearly, that the off road cycling infrastructure in the city is dispersed and disconnected; restricting any longer distance travel across the city without having to battle traffic.

Perhaps this could be used an “evidence base” to assist in the allocation of funding for new cycling infrastructure; particularly if it was combined with some accurate population density mapping

Jivrashia said :

… = Bicycle friendly roads

Had a good chuckle at that one.
Roads aren’t the problem.

Perhaps it means they’re tack free?

… = Bicycle friendly roads

Had a good chuckle at that one.
Roads aren’t the problem.

davo101 said :

Wow, a quick look at the bit of Canberra that I know shows an awfully large number of errors. Wonder if the problem was at this end or of it got a bit mashed being forced into Google format?

Well as I said at http://the-riotact.com/your-feedback-wanted-on-cycling-map/77464 about the Google Transit data:

“Their dataset is equally wrong. About 50% of the routes that it suggests are clearly silly. As a simple example the suggested route from my house in Kaleen to Mitchell takes me on a winding tour of the Gungahlin Cemetry! Another suggestion is long but otherwise OK and one goes 1500m out of the way because it doesn’t know about a section of path that the ACT Govt one does know.

I don’t know where they got their data from but it would make most sense if we had one correct dataset rather than the current situation where we have two or three (ACT Govt, OSM, Google) which are all wrong in different ways and where we will have to spend 3x the effort to get them updated.

Wow, a quick look at the bit of Canberra that I know shows an awfully large number of errors. Wonder if the problem was at this end or of it got a bit mashed being forced into Google format?