[Talk-ca] Bike infrastructure in OSM

[James]

I know the bike enthusiasts have been using this tagging guide:
https://github.com/BikeOttawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide

On Fri., Feb. 8, 2019, 5:06 p.m. Harald Kliems, <kliems at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just learned that US-based bike advocacy organization People for Bikes
> is going to expand their "Bicycle Network Analysis" (BNA) to the following
> Canadian cities: Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Ottawa, Halifax,
> Saskatoon, Edmonton, Montreal, Hamilton, Mississauga, Brampton.
>
> What is the BNA? It uses data about the a number of characteristics of
> roads and paths (e.g. number of lanes, speed limit, existence of bike
> lanes) to calculate a "traffic level of stress." For more detail, you can
> watch this presentation at SOTM-US:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgyynQDPQnQ
>
> The first round of BNA analysis happened last year in a large number of US
> cities: https://bna.peopleforbikes.org/#/
>
> Of course, the analysis can only be as good as the underlying data, and so
> I'd encourage everyone to improve the tagging of bike-relevant
> infrastructure in those cities. There is a tagging guide available here:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HuAXQUnCEcv9aLZyIDHkLTJ5ZSKfB-U4MlJSmN-1BLk/edit
>
> Apparently the data pull will be on February 16. So not a lot of time.
>
> I think it's a great project, and we have used it for our bike advocacy
> work in Madison (Wisconsin). And of course having great data about bike
> infrastructure in OSM is desirable outside of the project as well.
>
> Cheers,
>  Harald (hobbesvsboyle)
>
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