Yes, I know. WisDOT and Bike Fed - who designed and marketed the maps respectively - got quite a few complaints about the previous color scheme from people that were color blind.
Red-green color blindness is the most common type, so the best and worst roads (green and red) were hard to tell apart. The change was partially a WisDOT attempt to meet ADA standards as well. I completely agree that the new maps are harder to read at a glance. I worked with WisDOT, Bike Fed and the UW Cartography lab on the new design, but understand why they made that change. Of course, I'm not color blind, so I had no problems with the old maps. However, while working at Bike Fed, I had plenty of people tell me directly that they couldn't really use the old maps because of the color scheme. Robbie Webber On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM, john wagnitz <[email protected]> wrote: > does anybody know why the designers of the state bike maps switched the > colors from green, yellow and red to describe bicycle/traffic conditions to > brown, orange and yelllow? > > i am finding the new maps much more difficult to read. > > John Wagnitz > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > >
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