All that documentation was produced by Cycle Ottawa data devision. So by cyclists for cyclists
On Jan 23, 2018 6:30 PM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > The SOTM presentation was interesting. Especially the bit about the 5% > who would cycle anyway and these are often the people who are asked about > what should be done to improve things for cyclists. Are we asking the > wrong people? > > I think we need to identify what tags would be useful for routing purposes > and to identify which standard tags we can use. > > For example a nearby road has a cycle lane sort of depending how you > define it. It does appear on the city's cycling maps but isn't snowplowed > in winter and is not formally signed to provincial standards. It's Merkley > Drive K4A 1M7 if you want to look at it. It used to be in Cumberland but > got amalgamated into the City of Ottawa. There are other cycle lanes in > the City of Ottawa that do not meet provincial standards. > > Traffic volumes would be nice but how do you estimate them or obtain them > via Open Data perhaps? The City of Ottawa probably has the data and we are > cleared to incorporate it into OSM. > > Thoughts? > > Cheerio John > > On 23 January 2018 at 17:15, Harald Kliems <kli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:56 PM john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Perhaps what we need is a way to tag cycle friendly streets. Typically >>> I'll use a mixture of minor side streets and paths when using the trike. >>> >>> So I'd prefer a routing that used these as much as possible rather than >>> more major collector roads and you can't always determine from the speed >>> limit if it's a cycle friendly road or not although I too avoid highways >>> with a speed limit above 40 km/h. >>> >> There are efforts to identify bike-friendly streets based on OSM >> attributes (and possibly additional data such as traffic counts). People >> for Bikes, a large industry-sponsored advocacy org in the US has put money >> forward to take the concept of "Traffic level of stress" and then use >> OSM-data to calculate whether a specific street and intersection is >> low-stress or high-stress. You can find a SOTM-US talk about the "Bicycle >> Network Analaysis" project here: https://2017.stateofthemap.us/ >> program/bicycle-network-analysis.html >> >> https://bna.peopleforbikes.org/#/ >> >> The bike advocacy group I'm involved with here in Madison (WI) has been >> using the map/data generated through the Bicycle Network Analysis process, >> and we're working on a validation process to a) figure out where our local >> knowledge disagrees with the calculated stress value and then b) figure out >> whether that's an issue of the underlying OSM data (spoiler alert: in many >> cases it is) or a different issue. Happy to answer any questions about this. >> >> Harald (formerly Montreal, and therefore still subscribed to talk-ca) >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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