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CEC downloadable map of cycle / walking routes inc. QuietRoutes

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  • Started 9 years ago by HankChief
  • Latest reply from rbrtwtmn

  1. HankChief
    Member

    Just spotted that CEC gave updated their downloadable maps of cycle routes around Edinburgh including the QuietRoutes (new name for Family Network).

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    They are actually pretty good (apart from splitting the city up into 8 maps - unlike the Spokes one stop shop)

    I like the fact they show which cycle path entry points have steps and which don't, as well as the QuietRoutes.

    CEC have previously given us lots of the old version to handout at work to potential cycle commuters. Quite a few of them had to have route 9 scrawled on in pen - it'll be nice not to have to do that with this version.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. drnoble
    Member

    Would also be interesting to compare this to the OpenStreetMap cycle layer, which I think has most if not all of those mapped, plus a few more in places.
    I wonder if the council are going to sign the other quiet routes, marked brown on those maps. Hopefully they will do it with names rather than just numbers if they are going to spend money on signage, so that people can use the signs without a map.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  3. Klaxon
    Member

    I hope if there's a wall of these in the council offices maybe they'll start seeing gaps to fill as quick win small projects

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. Chug
    Member

    Great spot. I still find these useful for parts of the city I don't know.

    Still bits missing though - e.g. the cut through in front of Firrhill High School and the back entrance(s) to Craiglockhart Tennis centre - which is a shame

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    I think the Open Street Map is still better. For example, on the CEC map the path alongside the Range (formerly Big W) seems to just stop when it reaches Milton Road. But the Open Steets map shows what it really does which is to pass under the Milton Link roundabout and emerge on the pavement a short way from the cut through into Christian Crescent and the quiet route down into Portobello. The CEC map omits the CC cut through as well.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  6. rbrtwtmn
    Member

    Openstreetmap was brought up to date on Edinburgh's Family/Quiet Routes last time a load of signs were installed (for routes 6,8,9,10 and 20). Unless any actual new signs have gone up it still should be. Easiest place to check the OSM routes is at the OSM based site: cycling.waymarkedtrails.org (don't miss the 'Routes' button in the bottom right corner - nor the links to the other 'waymarkedtrails' sites in the top right corner for that matter)

    Posted 9 years ago #

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