DC area bike map review: introduction

I'm going to make a series of posts reviewing the quality of the print bike maps put out by the various regional governments. The set consists of Alexandria, Arlington County, DC, Fairfax County, Montgomery County, and Prince George's County.

I finally got my hands on a paper copy of Arlington's map recently, thus completing the quartet of Arlington, Alexandria, DC and Montgomery. As I do not have paper copies of the maps for Fairfax or Prince George's, I'll refer to what is available online.

Although print maps may be somewhat obsolete by now, they still exist and some people may use them, so I think it's worthwhile to analyze how effective they are.

I'll review the maps for things like overall usefulness, recency, clarity, quality of information and so on. Stay tuned! Once the series is completed, I'll add a link to it in this post.

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