On 12/8/2015 7:39 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com
<mailto:penor...@mac.com>> wrote:
For what points to pitch, I'd suggest
- Crowd-sourced, so they can edit themselves, meaning they can get
fixed data in minutes to days, not quarters to years
This is my goal. More mappers. They can use other sources, but OSM is
really the only one that they can actually improve.
- Useful for cycling advocacy, as it presents a more accurate less
car-focused set of data, and the open tools around OSM make it
easier to draw potential options
Can you help me understand this better? Maybe an example.
If you're trying to advocate for a cycle route you can do more useful
stuff with OSM than with other tools, such as examine average travel
times for improved cycle connection. OpenTripPlanner can be used for
this. You can do stuff more sophisticated than using photoshop to draw
in a line. People in the UK are using OSM in public right of way
advocacy because you can add details like buildings, other paths, parks,
and other features which make a proposal make more sense and generally
be more attractive.
- Areas like the North Shore in Vancouver have mountain paths
which aren't in and will never be in "official" datasets, but are
essential if you're cycling there. I'm not sure if there's
analogous areas in the Seattle area.
Got a link to the area? Be fun to show.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/49.332/-122.984&layers=C
As the paths are named by north shore bikers, they are not family safe.
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