Thanks, that's a very good video. On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 09:13 -0600, Joe Sapletal wrote: > If you haven’t seen it already, this was a good presentation from > SOTM a few months ago about Pedestrian Mapping. Nick briefly > discusses the plusses and minuses of adding sidewalk values to the > existing road way vs creating a way that is the actual sidewalk/path > that supports a pedestrian network. > > https://2018.stateofthemap.us/program/inclusive-pedestrian-mapping-opensidewalks-accessmap-and-accessibility.html > > > Joe Sapletal > > From: jumba...@gmail.com > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 8:37 AM > To: Joseph Eisenberg; Rihards > Cc: talk-us@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] NC sidewalk data import > > I can only speak for the Triangle area, but many sidewalks are mapped > as separate ways in this area. It is probably due to the very > idiosyncratic spending on sidewalks that can begin and end in the > middle of blocks and frequently do not have connections to the road > at > one end or the other. Trying to split ways and add information on > connections would lead to very fragmented way. > > Melanie, I know that there was a partial sidewalk import in > Carrboro/Chapel Hill years ago and there is currently a mapping > project > to add sidewalks in the city of Durham which is about halfway > complete > (see https://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/92). I cannot speak of > other cities' data, but the City of Durham data has only the sidewalk > ways themselves and have no connections to streets or other > infrastructure such as greenways or railways, so a mass import > without > careful integration with existing data would not work. It is a > fairly > labor intensive process. It would be definitely worth your while to > work on that as you move forward with a broader import project. > > I think the most currently active NC community is on Slack and you > might get more detailed conversations there. Here is the nc slack > link: https://osmus.slack.com/messages/CAM9RBREE and here is the > triangle link: https://osmus.slack.com/messages/CDW5X3RRD > > James > > On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 21:02 +0900, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > > The sidewalk style is somewhat controversial. For routing > > applications, it is simpler if the sidewalk is added as a tag on > the > > highway. This also makes it easier to render clean-looking maps. > > However, some people prefer to have the sidewalks separately > mapped, > > so that they can be seen at high zoom levels in rendered maps. > > > > I would suggest checking the current method used in North Carolina, > > especially in the cities or towns where you plan to add missing > > sidewalks. It’s probably best to continue using the method that > local > > mappers have chosen. This may vary between different towns. > > > > Thank you for helping make Openstreetmap even better! > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 7:48 PM Rihards <ric...@nakts.net> wrote: > > > On 27.01.19 21:41, Melanie Mazanec wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I'm a front end dev for a city government working on a side > > > project to > > > > fork and add to AccessMap <https://www.accessmap.io/> for North > > > Carolina > > > > cities. > > > > > > > > In order to make this happen, I want to import North Carolina > > > city > > > > sidewalk data into OSM. I have no prior OSM experience, so I'm > > > > following the suggested wiki protocol and reaching out here > > > before > > > > attempting an import. > > > > > > > > Does anyone have advice about tutorials or where to start? Are > > > there > > > > any NC OSM communities or enthusiasts I can connect with? > Also, > > > it > > > > seems like there are two competing sidewalk data formats. Is > > > there a > > > > preferred standard now? > > > > > > Hi, that's really great news - welcome to OSM. > > > It would be useful if you would try some basic mapping first to > get > > > familiar with OSM data structure. Try to map something near your > > > workplace or home. > > > That doesn't stop you from working on the import, of course. Any > > > questions on OSM are welcome on the IRC channel #osm ( > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC ), or any other OSM > > > communication channel. > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Melanie Mazanec-- > > > Rihards > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Talk-us mailing list > > > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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