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On 12/8/2015 7:39 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Paul
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points to pitch, I'd suggest<br>
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- Crowd-sourced, so they can edit themselves, meaning
they can get fixed data in minutes to days, not quarters
to years<br>
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<div>This is my goal. More mappers. They can use other
sources, but OSM is really the only one that they can
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- 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<br>
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<div>Can you help me understand this better? Maybe an
example. <br>
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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.<br>
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- 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.<br>
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<div>Got a link to the area? Be fun to show. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/49.332/-122.984&layers=C">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/49.332/-122.984&layers=C</a><br>
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As the paths are named by north shore bikers, they are not family
safe.<br>
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