Detectable Design reads a planned GPX route in your browser, matches it to available road data, highlights intersections with crash history or other risk factors, and adds clothing color guidance where local street-scene profiles overlap the route.
The attention index is designed to make the route card easy to share: one route-level label plus a short list of places to notice. It intentionally avoids pretending to know the exact risk of a future trip.
Each matched crossing is compared with other crossings in the same local context. More complex crossings, or crossings near crash records, receive higher scores.
The route score summarizes the crossings along the uploaded GPX file rather than ranking the whole city.
High, moderate, light, and easy attention labels are based on how the route compares with nearby intersections in the available dataset.
The route card limits the watch list to five intersections so the output stays usable before a run or ride.
Color guidance is now a route output, not the main navigation model. When the route overlaps local street-scene profiles, the page weights those profiles by the matched route segments and recommends colors that separate from the local backdrop.
The route card shows two high-vis colors to start with. These are still usually the strongest visibility choices when someone owns high-vis gear.
The route card also shows two regular clothing colors for cases where someone is choosing from clothing they already own.
Avoid colors are the colors most likely to blend into the matched local backdrop profiles.
If the route has road coverage but not local street-scene profiles, the page uses general visibility guidance instead of pretending the local color model is complete.
Road coverage and local street-scene coverage are separate. A route can have road matching without local color profiles for every segment.
Crash records describe what has been recorded nearby. They do not predict what will happen on a specific trip.
Low-light guidance uses available route and scene data, but comprehensive streetlight coverage is not available everywhere yet.
Seasonal profiles are used where there is enough image metadata. Otherwise the route card uses all-year profiles.
The route tool uses these studies to shape the color component of the recommendation. They support the general structure of the visibility model, not every constant in the implementation.
Detectable Design is an information tool for planning routes and choosing more visible clothing. It should be used alongside normal judgment, local conditions, lights, reflective details, and route planning.
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