Murray Rd and Gaffney St - Accurately display gaps in Dedicated bike lanes

13:09     Adrian     0 Comments

Murray Rd and Gaffney St - Accurately display gaps in Dedicated bike lanes

Summary: Google Maps Cycling layer often doesn't show gaps in Dedicated lanes. Substantial gaps in bike lanes usually have a considerable impact on cyclist safety and comfort. It also denies cyclists the opportunity to find safer alternate routes. Morevoer, hiding the gaps (or incorrectly labelling them "bicycle-friendly" instead) allows government agencies to escape their accountability to provide a genuine...
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St Georges Rd bike path to Miller St - Safer, popular connecting route should be accurately shown

21:31     Adrian     0 Comments

St Georges Rd bike path to Miller St - Safer, popular connecting route should be accurately shown

Summary: Regular cyclists often use bidirectional offroad paths, pedestrian crossings and other links inaccessible to motor traffic to find safer and more convenient ways to navigate intersections and less safe road conditions. Unfortunately, Google Maps Cycling layer and Directions don't currently incorporate or prioritise many of these routes. The connection between the St Georges Rd offroad bike path and Miller...
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Lygon St, Cemetery Rd and College Cres Shared Paths - Mark off-road Trails in actual location not centre of roadway

18:38     Adrian     0 Comments

Lygon St, Cemetery Rd and College Cres Shared Paths - Mark off-road Trails in actual location not centre of roadway

Summary: Many roads have off-road Trails ("shared paths") running alongside for the use of cyclists, pedestrians and other non-motorists. Unfortunately, current Google Maps policy results in many "parallel trails" not being marked where they are but inaccurately placed in the middle of the road. Lygon St, Cemetery Rd and College Crescent are busy roads with no safe cycling space...
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Exhibition St between La Trobe St and Little Bourke St - Fix Dedicated lanes to indicate they are part-time only

15:28     Adrian     0 Comments

Exhibition St between La Trobe St and Little Bourke St - Fix Dedicated lanes to indicate they are part-time only

Summary: This stretch of Exhibition St has Dedicated bike lanes only for a couple of hours (peak hour) of the day on weekdays only. Yet Google Maps displays permanent Dedicated lanes as if they are available 24/7. Even worse, unlike some other part-time Dedicated lanes (e.g. Sydney Rd type), the type represented by Exhibition St do not provide any...
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Barrow St between Rennie St and The Grove - Change to Bicycle-friendly road

16:00     Adrian     0 Comments

Barrow St between Rennie St and The Grove - Change to Bicycle-friendly road

Summary: Barrow St between Rennie St and The Grove is marked as having Dedicated lanes. There are no bike lanes but the street should be marked as a Bicycle-friendly road as it is part of a formal north-south back streets route. Status: Reported to Google Maps on 17 Feb 2016 but not yet fixed. Issue Type: Issue 2: Bike lanes that...
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Holden St from St Georges Rd to Nicholson St - Delete Dedicated lane

23:21     Adrian     0 Comments

Holden St from St Georges Rd to Nicholson St - Delete Dedicated lane

Summary: Holden St from St Georges Rd to Nicholson St is marked as having Dedicated lanes. These bike lanes are actually Useless Door Zone Bike Lanes that provide no safe space for cycling. They should be deleted as they are dangerous for inexperienced cyclists and provide a disservice to experienced cyclists who use alternate east-west routes and wouldn't desire to...
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Issue 20: Dirt/unpaved trails should be accurate, unsuited for most wheeled transport and avoidable

01:51     Adrian     0 Comments

Issue 20: Dirt/unpaved trails should be accurate, unsuited for most wheeled transport and avoidable

Summary: It appears Google Maps added the Dirt/unpaved trails classification to its Cycling layer to aid recreational users (walkers, hikers, mountain bikers) in finding dirt-like trails. These are marked in brown and differentiated from paved Trails in dark green. However, there are a few issues and improvements needed to the handling of such trails: - Firstly, it is too...
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Issue 19: Google Maps Cycling Directions should show accurate and practical routes through intersections

00:59     Adrian     0 Comments

Issue 19: Google Maps Cycling Directions should show accurate and practical routes through intersections

Summary: The feasibility, safety and convenience of navigating road intersections on a bike is a major factor in identifying practical routes. Unfortunately, Google Maps Cycling Directions often have various deficiencies in their intersection routes: - Sometimes the cycling (and often walking) route is wildly incorrect and dangerous. While pedestrians can often figure it out on the spot, cyclists following...
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Issue 18: Bike routes marked as Avoid should be visible in Google Maps Cycling layer

20:26     Adrian     0 Comments

Issue 18: Bike routes marked as Avoid should be visible in Google Maps Cycling layer

Summary: Experienced local cyclists and bike groups often expend significant time and effort marking roads most unsuited to cycling as "Avoid" using Google Map Maker (e.g. high speeds, high traffic volumes, no or dangerous bike facilities). However, these routes are not displayed as colour-coded lines in the Cycling layer. This data is only used in charting Cycling Directions. The...
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Issue 16: The Bicycle-friendly roads classification should be used selectively for genuinely useful routes

01:30     Adrian     0 Comments

Issue 16: The Bicycle-friendly roads classification should be used selectively for genuinely useful routes

Summary: According to Google Maps, the dashed green Bicycle-friendly roads classification indicates "roads that are designated as preferred for bicycling, but without dedicated lanes." In practice, there is no consistent threshold of safety or comfort for a road to be marked as Bicycle-friendly. It is highly desirable for the Bicycle-friendly roads classification to be explained officially in more detail...
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