Fort Custer Trail Map

[ssteinbe]

Is there an updated trail map online that shows all the recent changes at Fort Custer?

[balexander87]

New Fort Custer Map

Please let me know if you have problems accessing this. I generated the PDF from a JPG they posted on the Bike Fort Custer Facebook page.

[Static_Crash]

Nice work on the map, Ben. We need to move that over to the trail guide section to replace the outdated one.

[balexander87]

Glad to help

[Static_Crash]

I'm not sure who added it to the trail guide, but thanks for doing it!

[balexander87]

I just posted the file in the Web Site Issues forum. c0nsumer took care of the rest. Hope I wasn't stepping on any toes If there is a better/more up-to-date version, please correct me!

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[Loren]

A suggestion should this map be updated again...

Something like 8 percent of males have some level of color blindness and may have difficulties distinguishing between mountain bike trails and equestrian trails on this map. It would be a huge advantage to these individuals if there were some other indication, like dots or dashes, used for the equestrian trails, or if the colors used had much greater contrasts.

I know it's hard to visualize if you're not affected, but it's really hard for me to distinguish the brown trail from the green trail on this map. It's readily apparent on my iPhone, not so easy on a hardcopy. I appreciate the symbolism of marking their trails with the color of horse *beep*, but something like yellow would have worked better.

[Static_Crash]

I just posted the file in the Web Site Issues forum. c0nsumer took care of the rest. Hope I wasn't stepping on any toes If there is a better/more up-to-date version, please correct me!

Just who do you think you are showing initiative and stuff?!!! Thanks again for doing it, it was long overdue.

Loren -

Good suggestions. An even better reason to change it; something like 87.9% of equestrians have difficulties distinguishing between mountain bike trails and equestrian trails on a map.. I kid, I kid. I will offer up your suggestions at our next chapter meeting.

[c0nsumer]

A suggestion should this map be updated again...

Something like 8 percent of males have some level of color blindness and may have difficulties distinguishing between mountain bike trails and equestrian trails on this map. It would be a huge advantage to these individuals if there were some other indication, like dots or dashes, used for the equestrian trails, or if the colors used had much greater contrasts.

I know it's hard to visualize if you're not affected, but it's really hard for me to distinguish the brown trail from the green trail on this map. It's readily apparent on my iPhone, not so easy on a hardcopy. I appreciate the symbolism of marking their trails with the color of horse *beep*, but something like yellow would have worked better.

I had to be really cognizant of this when working on the Addison Oaks Map. I'm a bit red/green colorblind, but in good light it's not noticeable. I used this application for OS X to do whole-screen transformations to replicate different kinds of color blindness to be sure one could still differentiate everything.

Sorry to say it, but the Fort Custer map soundly fails this test. I too even have a hard time differentiating green and brown on there. Adding some texture (dashes, etc) to the lines can help a bunch with this.

[Static_Crash]

Thanks for the constructive criticism, c0nsumer. I actually prefer the black and white option for printing/copying purposes too, another reason to add some texture IMO. Me being the FNG, I can only take these things to the powers that be and see where it goes from there. Again, thanks for the input.

[balexander87]

I used this application for OS X to do whole-screen transformations to replicate different kinds of color blindness to be sure one could still differentiate everything.

That is a really cool application. Everything I do now will be checked to make sure it is color-blindness compatible! Btw, it looks like they have versions for Windows and Linux as well

[c0nsumer]

Thanks for the constructive criticism, c0nsumer. I actually prefer the black and white option for printing/copying purposes too, another reason to add some texture IMO. Me being the FNG, I can only take these things to the powers that be and see where it goes from there. Again, thanks for the input.

Sure. I hope I didn't come across harshly; I didn't mean to.

If I can be of any help with map stuff, please let me know. I'm fairly new to map making, but I've got a couple done and published and thus far the parks and users have all seemed happy with the results.