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) -- GPG Key-ID: 0x34cb93972f186565
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