Safe Walking Route Maps
Hello School Administrators,
Your school website will soon have a new and improved Safe Walking Routes map. To access your map, try this:
- Go to your school website and click on the "OUR SCHOOL" tab near the top of the page.
- Click on "Maps & Transportation."
- Click on "Safe Walking Route" under "Resources."
Please note the following:
- This map allows you to zoom in and zoom out - it is not a pdf.
- The tile in the bottom left corner of your map (just click on it) allows you to see it as a FOOTPRINT MAP or as a SATELLITE IMAGE MAP.
- The satellite image map is very effective when viewing with your community, SCC, or staff. That's because you can see the actual crosswalks, street widths (these vary a lot around our city), and recently added structures in your community.
- Some of you will notice that the footprint map is a bit dated: For example, it may show the location of your old building before rebuild (see Edison as an example). I looked into getting the footprint maps updated but that is proving difficult. The satellite map is much more recent.
- We did not include all the features that the Safe Routes UT site had because the icons won't scale down when using the zoom feature; the resulting mess of piled-up icons made the maps too confusing. We went with a more simplified, easy-to-read-and-navigate approach.
- Please look over your new map and share any concerns, questions, or necessary changes with me.
- Please share this map with your parents/community.
- Please do NOT refer parents to the Safe Routes UT website (that site still doesn't have maps that outline our school boundaries).
- You can use this map for all sorts of reasons like navigating through your yearly safe walking routes updates or for mapping school walking field trips/fun runs.
Thank you,
Sam Quantz
Chief Information Officer, Information Technology
