In hope of making NYC more accessible to cyclists and pedestrians, this map provides rare granular local information for biking and walking the city, using NYC Open Data.
- Toggle features: show or hide these layers by clicking some buttons:
Bike parking: park the bike and go do something.- Click on a bike symbol to see the address and number of racks available at that spot.
Bike routes: ride somewhere!Public benches: sit down and shu ... take a break from walking around all day.- Click on a triangle symbol to see the address and cross streets of the location, and whether the bench has a back or not. It's nice to lean back sometimes.
- Popup information: when you click on some random symbols (subway station, schools, landmark, etc.), a dialog box appears and shows basic information.
- It's not particularly useful right now, but it will be after adding Twitter and FourSquare data.
- Switchable map style: click the radio buttons up top to switch to a different map style.
- Default: the Navigation Preview Day theme, an elegant and clean navigation map layer.
- Streets: the popular Mapbox Streets style with a good amount of navigation details.
- Scenic: a minimalist navigation map that highlights major features for nature enthusiasts (parks, highways, etc.).
- Standard: a retro style modeled after the Standard Oil maps.
- Navigate: a no-nonsense navigation map that highlights roadways.
- North Star: a nautical navigation map with ocean depth contours; looks better far out than zoomed in.
Click on a symbol to see more information about it.
Press the buttons on the upper left corner to show or hide features.
- Features toggle
- Data is downloaded manually from NYC Open Data and uploaded to Mapbox Studio to create custom vector tiles.
- To create the show/hide features effect, the code uses Mapbox API to render a map and retrieve the custom vector tiles as layers upon the map.
- Switchable map styles
- Manually selected map styles on Mapbox Studio, then uses API to retrieve styles at runtime.