radlkarte.at

Website for desktop, tablet & smartphone usage with the goal to provide useful (route) information for cyclists.

If you use the software and/or route data the preferred way to credit is: © radlkarte.at - Radlobby Österreich

Features

• Show recommended bicycle routes
  • Three quality types of route segments: calm, medium, stressful
  • Three importance levels of route segments: main, regional, local
    • Hide parts of the recommended routes when zooming out (for a better overview)
  • Special properties of the routes
    • Oneway (arrow)
    • Steep (bristles)
    • Unpaved (dotted lines)
• Automatically switch to the bicycle routes of the currently viewed region
• Show problematic points along the route where dismounting or usage of heavy/wide bicycles may not be possible
• GPS localization (especially useful for mobile devices)
• Geocoding (address search)

Route Data

Route data is stored in .geojson format with the following attributes.

Line Attributes

Mandatory:

• priority: 0 (highest), 1 (medium), 2 (lowest)
• stress: 0 (no stress), 1 (medium), 2 (a lot of stress)

Optional (omitting the attributes means 'no'):

• oneway: yes (route only legal in one direction)
• steep: yes (very steep,
• unpaved: yes (dirt, gravel or extremely uneven surfaces even though they are paved)

Point Attributes

• dismount: yes (bicycle must or should be pushed (in at least one direction), either due to legal restrictions or because it's a very dangrous spot)
• nocargo: yes (not feasible for heavy/extra-long/extra-wide bicycles, e.g. cargo bicycles or bikes with trailers due to e.g. stairs or chicanes)
• warning: yes (problematic location, should be combined with the description attribute)
• description: string explaining details (shown to the users via popup)

Edit Instructions

1. Download JOSM
2. Add josm-radlkarte-style.mapcss in edit > preferences > map settings (3rd buttom from the top) > map paint styles
3. Load an existing radlkarte .geojson file, e.g. radlkarte-example.geojson, or create a new layer.
4. Edit routes
5. Save the result as .geojson (not as .osm!)
6. Minify the .geojson with minify_and_sort_geojson.py

Development

To test locally with Firefox go to about:config and set privacy.file_unique_origin=false, this allows local CORS requests.

Linting:

sudo npm i -g jshint html5-lint
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/html5-lint/html5check.py index.html
jshint radlkarte.js

Known Bugs

• Arrows in wrong size on fast zoom (synchronization issue of rendering method that is called more than once I fear)

Future Ideas

• Describe layer-switching & opencyclemap legend? explicitly show cycleways somehow (user request hotjar)?
• Make problem-POIs hidable in layer switcher
• Optional overlays for cycling-POIs
  • bike sharing stations (Citybike + Nextbike),
  • bicycle shops
  • bicycle pumps / repair stations
  • train and metro stations
• Differentiate between a simple & an advanced UI.
  • simple: auto-hides parts of the network based on zoom level, no layer switcher
  • advanced: layer switcher, control opacity of overlay, freely choose network-parts to show