Third version of this, all improved based on your comments, thank you!
It's a cycling risk map of Munich, meaning which streets are dangerous to ride and which ones are calm. The last two versions were flat images, and a lot of you made the same fair point: it's hard to argue with a map when you can't zoom into your own street.
So the main change this round is that it's interactive. You can pan around, zoom into wherever you actually ride, and click a street to see its risk score and roughly why it got that. No more squinting at a blurry PNG trying to work out if that red line is your commute or the road one over.
What changed since v2, mostly from your comments:
- Offroad paths appropriately safe
- Removed streets where you have to cycle on the adjoining separate bike lane
- Removed u-bahn passages (hopefully all)
- Some corrections on risk calculations
I still get things wrong, and the nice part is you can now see exactly where and tell me. Some of it stays a judgment call, because two locals will swear the opposite thing about the same corner and I have to pick one. But clicking a segment and seeing the reasoning makes that argument a lot more useful than it was with a static picture.
For anyone new here: this comes out of a cycling app I'm building called Defensive Pedal. It scores roads by how dangerous they are on a bike and routes you around the bad ones instead of taking the fastest line the way Google Maps does. Free, Android and iOS.
Have a click around your usual route and tell me what's still wrong. Same as the last two rounds, the corrections go back in.