Derek – My only concern at this point is
that the map not include any short-cuts across prviate property – as some Bike
Board member route did include in earlier submissions.
As a public map and a public project, we
simply cannot handle that.
I am a commuter and transportation
oriented bike rider and I would like to see what has been laid out. Things keep
changing, too, on the North side of town.
Don
From: Derek Springston
[mailto:guitardeek@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 23,
2009 3:28 PM
To:
Cc: Morgantown Bike Board
Subject: RE: [Bikeboard]
Symbols/categories for Bike Route Map?
Don and Frank,
I have been making more of progress on the routes within the last week or
so. I spent several hours last weekend drawing routes, and I finished up
Frank's contribution to the mapping. I've moved on to the other BB
member's maps and a few fairly obvious routes that I've found that seemed
missing. I'll be able to finish those up quicker than Frank's map, since
he had the most routes! I am trying hard to get all of the routes drawn
in by the next Bike Board meeting (10-1-2009). Then we'll have
approximately 2 1/2 week to update the symbology.
Given the timeframe, I honestly don't know if the BB will be able to finish our
symbology definitions, assign symbols to all of the several hundred routes,
designate steep areas, etc, etc. As Frank stated below, I also am a bit
hesitant to release the map if it's not a quality map or if the underlying data
isn't accurate. However, even getting a basic map 'out there' could be
great for our community. There's nothing saying we can't version this map
and create a better one for release before next summer or earlier.
By the way, who is our audience with this map? Are we just displaying a
large poster? Are you hoping to give out maps to everyone
attending? 100 maps or 200 maps? I know Frank had mentioned getting
these files eventually included on the city maps that are available at the
Greater Morgantown Convention & Vistors Bureau.
I see my self having significantly more time over the next few weeks than I've
had recently.
Your thoughts?
By the way, thanks to all who have contributed their routes!
~Derek
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:00:48 -0400
From: fgmeindl@verizon.net
To: dspencer36@comcast.net
CC: bikeboard@cheat.org; guitardeek@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [Bikeboard] Symbols/categories for Bike Route Map?
Don,
When Derek finishes compiling the input that he received from the Bicycle Board
members, we will have another Bicycle Board meeting to classify the routes and
to achieve consensus on the classification. At this point, I expect we
will only have the best routes identified, not necessarily the good routes or
the not so good routes, and perhaps a few bad routes.
I know you want to have the map available October 19 at the WVU Multi-Modal
Transportation Facility's grand opening and we are trying to achieve that
date. However, unless we have Bicycle Board consensus that the map is
ready to release, we will not release it.
In the meantime, we need to plan how we're going to take the electronic version
and get it on paper in time for October 19. I think that is outside
Derek's scope of work.
Frank
On 9/23/2009 2:16 PM,
Frank and Derek – Will there be a another
chance to see the progress on this project before it is completely finalized?
Don
From: bikeboard-bounces@cheat.org [mailto:bikeboard-bounces@cheat.org]
On Behalf Of
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009
7:13 AM
To: Derek Springston
Cc: Morgantown Bike Board
Subject: Re: [Bikeboard]
Symbols/categories for Bike Route Map?
Derek,
We had such a small turnout for the last meeting that we did not
discuss the route map. Instead, we discussed what it would take to get BB
members to participate.
Frank
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 17, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Derek Springston <guitardeek@hotmail.com> wrote: