Braden MacDonald
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Braden MacDonald
@bradenmacdonald.com
Software developer in Vancouver. 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 CTO @ OpenCraft. Into urbanism and a bit of politics, tech, & science. Latest project is cycling map at www.transitopia.org/cycling
You can now see bike racks (bike parking spots) on the #Vancouver #cycling map at www.transitopia.org/cycling?z=14... . It's the only app I know of that shows this info on modern vector-based map (and a clean visual design). Data is from OpenStreetMap and covers all of BC, but is incomplete.
August 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Currently working on building a map of all of Vancouver's bike racks. Coming soon! github.com/transitopia/...
August 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🚴The Transitopia Cycling Map now gets updated automatically from the latest OpenStreetMap data every day 😎 You can see the brand new Granville Connector, St. George Rainway, and more. www.transitopia.org/cycling?z=14...
August 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I've updated the cycling map at www.transitopia.org/cycling with the latest OpenStreetMap data. Now for example it shows the Seawall detour near Science World. My blog post has a tool to view the before/after versions: www.bradenmacdonald.com/articles/upd...
May 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Now this is just sad. Somehow I think Christmas is still going to happen whether or not John Charisma scams gullible boomers into signing a petition. 🎄
December 17, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Just finished this book and really enjoyed it. It covered a lot of the same things you'll read in many similar books (Kahneman, Yudkowsky, replication crisis, etc.), but I still learned a lot and it helped me refresh/consolidate a lot of ideas. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everyt...
November 21, 2024 at 5:40 AM
I've just pulled the latest OpenStreetMap data into the Transitopia Cycling Map, and it's interesting to see the changes in the map since I last updated it 10 months ago. See the details and interactive comparison: www.bradenmacdonald.com/articles/upd...
November 17, 2024 at 3:29 AM
This year, I started building an open source cycling map for the Vancouver area. The idea is to show as much info about route quality as the official city/Translink PDF maps, but in the nice zoomable interactive format of Google Maps. Hoping to work on this more in 2025! www.transitopia.org/cycling
November 15, 2024 at 7:00 PM