John - Do you actually know how to do this? I am not tech savvy enough to be able to make it look real, or even to be able to do a half-way job, for that matter.
It sounds like quite a bit of Photoshop work to actually pull it off especially with walkers and bicyclists in motion. But then, as I said, I wouldn't even know how to start. If you are willing to take on this project as you suggested, that would rock. In the meantime, I'm going to see about doing it with real people. Robbie Webber Bike Walk Madison Steering Committee www.bikewalkmadison.org Join our group on Facebook! On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:20 AM, John Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > The classic way is to show the cars, then show the same number of > people sitting on chairs in the position they would sit if driving the car, > i.e. approximately 12 feet apart laterally, and 25 feet (?) linearly. Then > the same people move their chairs into the position they would take up if > using bus seats. Often the bus itself is not even in the photo. Finally, you > have the same number of people on the same street riding bikes and walking. > > Perhaps the simplest way to make this image is to > > 1. find your favorite congested street from Bing Maps ("birds-eye" > view), > 2. choose your angle and zoom level > 3. screenshot > 4. paste in 40 cars/drivers, then 40 bikes/cyclists, then 1 bus/40 > riders > > We could quickly make one with the Capitol building in back, and one on > John Nolen, and one on University... > > Technology is great. The downside is that there's a bit of camaraderie lost > in not getting 40 people together to do this. The upside is that in using a > generic person, it might look a bit less, um... holier-than-thou, which, I > think, is a turn-off to some of the drivers we're trying to reach. > > my .02, > John > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > >
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