San Jose mapping wishlist

[1ec5]

• [ ] Building footprints
• [ ] Addresses
• [ ] VTA bus routes and stops
• [ ] Sidewalks & crosswalks
• [ ] Parks and schools
• [ ] Double-check libraries
• [ ] Investigate trail coverage

[3vivekb]

Road Data - Lane numbers, speeds, direction (everything in TomTom?)

[1ec5]

Lane numbers

Lane counts appear to be largely limited to freeways and expressways, plus major arterials in North County. Still a lot of major streets without lane counts.

HOV lanes have been tagged, but we need to fix up some of the tagging to meet the project’s standards. (There are plenty of ways tagged note=left lane is hov, for example; the hov:lanes tag is more appropriate.)

speeds

Speed limits are in good shape in Palo Alto and Sunnyvale and on most freeways and expressways, but other areas need a lot of work.

direction

Do you mean one-ways? My impression is that OSM has pretty good coverage of one-ways in the South Bay.

[3vivekb]

Those links are so cool.

I'm not sure what is required yet for good road data. I think we want to make it very good, at least for the big roads. Potentially you can use OSM street networks for open source congestion modeling. I think we would need all of the above. I'll have a source from MTC -> VTA map network to test against soon from here.

[e-lo]

the OpenSidewalks team has done a good job of gamifying and simplifying accessibility data crowdsourcing into OSM and their OSM proposal

https://github.com/OpenSidewalks/OpenSideWalkQuests

https://github.com/OpenSidewalks/GPSContributionApp-iOS

[1ec5]

Thanks for the links, @e-lo! We’re also in touch with the OpenSidewalks team, since we’ve been focusing on adding sidewalks and crosswalks to OSM (#6). Nick hasn’t recommended these apps to us; we’ll keep them in mind, but they don’t appear quite ready for our use case yet.

[rkiddy]

grocery and food retail - for mapping food deserts.

[1ec5]

Hopefully we’ll get all the grocery and food retail POIs as part of #23. 🚀