Hello everyone,
I’m Madeline, a new GIS Data Analyst at TriMet, and I wanted to let you all know about a new collaborative project for improving the pedestrian network in OSM in the Portland Area. (For those of you in the PDX-OSGEO google group, sorry for the cross posting). The City of Portland, Oregon Walks, and TriMet have been adding sidewalk tags to street centerlines, and we’re really hoping to engage the broader OSM and PDX-OSGeo community with this effort as we move forward. We will be having a meeting at Metro soon (they’re supportive too), and if you’re interested in this work, it would be great it you could join us! I’ll be sending out a doodle poll soon to schedule this – please contact me if you’d like to be included. We also aim to have a mapathon or two on this project – more on that later.
We don’t have anything published online yet as this is still getting off the ground, so I’ll include a brief outline of our methods and goals here to get the conversation going. We really want to get OSM community input on this soon, so please email me with any thoughts, comments, or concerns that you may have.
The basic approach:
Major benefits of adding sidewalk presence/absence information to all of OSM in the greater Portland Area:
We’re also interested in potentially adding wheelchair tags and curb cut information to centerlines, but this presents more challenges, and standard tagging practices aren’t as established. If you’re interested in discussing how such accessibility information should (or shouldn’t) be represented in OSM, we would love to hear from you! I’d also love to talk to people about how we might engage volunteers via mapathons, map roulette, or other outlets.
Thanks so much, and hope to hear from you,
Madeline
madelin...@gmail.com / Ste...@trimet.org
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