{"id":1790670,"date":"2021-04-23T08:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1790670"},"modified":"2021-04-23T08:54:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:54:26","slug":"a-network-map-of-ottawas-cycling-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/04\/a-network-map-of-ottawas-cycling-network\/","title":{"rendered":"A Network Map of Ottawa’s Cycling Network"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hans on the Bike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hans on the Bike has produced a map of the Ottawa-Gatineau bicycle path network in the style of a Beck-style subway network map<\/a>. \u201cIs a metro map for cycling useful? I think it has a function in visualizing a network in an easy and pleasing way,\u201d he writes. \u201cIn the end it is more a fun project than a bike map avant la lettre<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nothing wrong with it as a fun exercise, but can it actually be used? As someone who back in the day biked quite a lot of the Ottawa and Gatineau bike trail network, I can\u2019t use this map. I don\u2019t recognize the path network. Part of it is because many of those paths have names that he doesn\u2019t use; part of it is the conceit of creating \u201cstations\u201d; part of it is that a surface path network that can be entered or exited at any point is not well served by a network diagram. It makes sense to abstract a subway network from the street level, because you\u2019re basically travelling from station to station. You\u2019re not doing that on a bike; you\u2019re in the neighbourhood<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hans on the Bike has produced a map of the Ottawa-Gatineau bicycle path network in the style of a Beck-style subway network map. \u201cIs a metro map for cycling useful? I think it has a… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[131,577,700,357],"class_list":["post-1790670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-sport-recreation","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-gatineau","tag-ottawa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3287,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/gatineau-crime-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790670,"position":0},"title":"Gatineau Crime Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 November 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"I live 45 minutes outside the western Quebec city of Gatineau, which itself lies just across the river from Canada's capital city, Ottawa. 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