Hi John. As already mentioned, the colors were changed to use a palette that colorblind users can distinguish. If you try to ignore the colors a bit, I think you will notice that now the bad roads fade into the background, while the good roads really pop out. After looking at them a few times, I think the change is really good, and we have heard a lot of positive feedback (mostly from people with normal vision).
Kevin Message: 7 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:53:20 -0500 From: "Schaefer, William" <[email protected]> To: 'Robbie Webber' <[email protected]>, john wagnitz <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Bikies] state bike maps Message-ID: <3781e2c16dfd18488c5ca4ef5ff3738b0169c6f6a...@exmbx.cityofmadison.com > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We also changed the color scheme for the county bike map (dropping the red/yellow/green) mostly because the red (i.e., least suitable) roads stood out the most. The new color scheme deals with the issue Robbie raised, is consistent with the state map, and also highlights the most suitable roads. We still need to figure out a way to get the local roads to stand out more. Bill Schaefer, Transportation Planning Manager Madison Area Transportation Planning Board - An MPO 121 S. Pinckney St., #400 Madison, WI 53703 PH: (608) 266-9115 FAX: (608) 261-9967 Email: [email protected] www.MadisonAreaMPO.org <http://www.madisonareampo.org/> From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Robbie Webber Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 1:15 PM To: john wagnitz Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Bikies] state bike maps 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]<mailto: [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 -- *Kevin Luecke** *Lead Planner, Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin www.bfw.org | 608-251-4456
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