Open jlstro opened 6 years ago
hmm. interesting. can you tell us, how much is living space and how much is park space too?
I loaded Hamburg's street grid into qgis, so here's a screenshot
This is not actually part of the project but it looks cool. So far, everything happened inside a notebook. There are no cool graphics yet.
I think I will compare the Hamburg districts with each other in the end, so the individual data sets are a bit smaller / easier to handle. There are 30.000 plus street segments in Hamburg, I thought it was much less.
Despite all prejudice, German streets are not all the same size/width. That makes it a bit complicated to figure out the actual area - so far, all I have is length.
@sarahslo Yes, I will try to divide the remaining (non-car) areas into resident, recreation, etc. That should be fairly easy with the data I have I hope.
Really interesting! Are you planning on doing a map, or something that hacks up the info and makes it into something else, like an area chart of some kind? (Like a waffle chart, but you could make the space dedicated to cars pictures of cars, dedicated to bikes pictures of bikes, dedicated biz pic of a shop, dedicated residential pic of a house, etc.) Lots of possibilities! Excited to see what comes next.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to finish this project in due time. I will come back after Lede and make it nice. Here's a map of what I did so far: red is car-stuff (parking, roads), light orange is public transportation. Light grey are buildings, green / blue is parks and water and dark grey is "other" - mostly industrial areas and some agriculture. The streets width is not to scale!
Here's what I did so far:
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Pitch
Summary
The project will try to answer the question given in the title: How much of the surface area of my hometown Hamburg is dedicated to cars? The basic idea is to come up with a percentage and/or total of all the surface area of the city that is constructed for automotive transportation, e.g. streets & car parking areas, gas stations, highways, bridges... If possible, I'll try calculate the corresponding figure for bikes and trains/metro as well as a comparison. If all goes well, I will also compare different areas of the city: Rich/poor neighbourhoods, industrial/resident, touristy/non-touristy, etc.
I took inspiration from this and this article.
Details
Possible headline(s): N percent of Hamburg's surface is dedicated to cars, only x to bikes Every car uses up N square meter in Hamburg Cars use up a lot of space: Here's how much exactly Data set(s): I will work with data from OpenStreetmap. I'll have to figure out how exactly I measure the area. Code repository: will provide link later Possible problems/fears/questions: I think the biggest problem is to measure the area of streets correctly, so identify which non-street parts of a city are dedicated to cars
Work so far
Nothing to show, sorry
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