Getting to know more about
the community by walking.
| NET teams need to know
as much as they can about the various streets, trails, stairs, etc which
give access the the neighborhood. There's a lot of connectivity that
can help when trees and power lines block the ways.
Block watches, too, benefit from such familiarity.
Since walking through Portland can be especially
enjoyable, NET's and block watches--and why not other groups?--should occasionally
take a healthful stroll through the neighborhood. We've found new
candidates for NET training this way, too. |
MAPS
of Southwest Portland (and Forest Park)
Look for pedestrian connections: stairs,
trails, paths, etc. which give the person on foot or bike a big advantage.
| This web site has accurate and complete
maps of SW Portland. Similarly corrected and augmented maps for the
rest of the Portland area would be desirable. While the accuracy
of the maps from Map Quest, Yahoo, and Google are considerably better than
the printed maps available, they still don't have the pedestrian additions.
It's easy to produce the more-detailed
maps you see here. It should be easy to find people through the city
who could locate the details (and needed corrections), and probably not
much harder to find people who can make the corrections, and post to the
Web, maps for the rest of the city. |
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