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Offline BikeFreak

Google Maps: Change road colors?
« on: November 19, 2015, 06:13:32 pm »
Hi,

For a trip I need to print some maps from a color desktop printer. However, Google Maps has chosen to show minor roads in a gray color which blends in with the background too easily:

https://www.google.dk/maps/@41.1727524,-104.1542898,12.81z?hl=da

Above you see a section close to Interstate 80 in Wyoming. I am interested in the smaller roads colored gray above and below the interstate.

1. How can the minor roads be colored differently to make an easily readable print?
2. Is there another online map service which shows the roads in more bright colors?

Lucas

Offline SlowAndSlower

Re: Google Maps: Change road colors?
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2015, 11:15:55 pm »
RWGPS http://ridewithgps.com/has quite a few different map titles and one shoud do the job for you. On my website I have a few OSM tiles available http://twaca.net/wp/?page_id=2336 that you can see how the OpenStreetMaps look.

If you don't find anything satisfactory I could play around with this https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/styling?hl=en and see if I can get a better contrast for you.

You can try this your self http://googlemaps.github.io/js-samples/styledmaps/wizard/index.html
« Last Edit: November 19, 2015, 11:26:12 pm by SlowAndSlower »

Offline BikeFreak

Re: Google Maps: Change road colors?
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2015, 02:27:55 pm »
Thanks, Your last link helped tremendously :-)
Lucas

Offline BikeFreak

Re: Google Maps: Change road colors?
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2016, 10:07:32 am »
I am still struggling with the maps, so I would like a more direct approach.

Please have a look at https://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/map/

I need to print the entire route on a detailed level using a color printer.

When zooming in, the local road color is grey and blends in too much with the background such that map reading becomes difficult on the road in bad light. I read something about map styles and changing codes. Can this be done to this map? I want the local roads in a much brighter color - for instance pitch black.

Lucas

Offline DaveB

Re: Google Maps: Change road colors?
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2016, 10:23:42 am »
Can you print the maps and then manually trace just the road you want using a sharpie in what ever color is suitably visible?

Offline BikeFreak

Re: Google Maps: Change road colors?
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2016, 11:09:50 am »
Yes I can, but the problem is the NOT the route itself. It is all the local roads crossing my route. It is a matter of orientation that I know for instance that I have to pass 3 local roads before making a left turn. That way I need to trace MANY roads.

indyfabz

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Re: Google Maps: Change road colors?
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2016, 08:43:32 am »
Not for nothin', and assuming your planned route is the E-W blue, but you would be better off taking PA 234 from east of Caldedonia State Park towards York unless you really want to visit Gettysburg. The battlefield is neat to ride through, but the town itself is choked with traffic. Also, you really don't want to be on U.S. 30 east of Lancaster. I can get you to Philly via a much nicer and much safer route. Let me know.