[OSM-talk] Involving Cyclists in OSM

[Paul Norman]

On 12/8/2015 7:39 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com 
> <mailto:penorman at mac.com>> wrote:
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>     For what points to pitch, I'd suggest
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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
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> This is my goal. More mappers. They can use other sources, but OSM is 
> really the only one that they can actually improve.
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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
>
>
> 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.
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>
> 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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