OpenStreetMap:Bicycling and SRTS

Josh Doe <josh@joshdoe.com>

Given to Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling August 17, 2011

Outline

• What is OpenStreetMap (OSM)? • What can be done with OSM• OSM data model• How to map• Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Mapping Toolkit

What is OpenStreetMap?

• Community driven project to map the world• Anyone can contribute, like Wikipedia

oHistory is kept: vandalism can be undone• Collaboratively determined mapping

conventions • Data is freely available for anyone to use

What can be done with OSM data?

• Online maps• Mobile apps• Routing/navigation• Analysis

OpenStreetMap.org

Open.MapQuest.com

Paper Maps

Routing

© 2011 CloudMade - Map data CCBYSA 2011 OpenStreetMap.org contributors

Analysis

Sidewalks and roads maintained by my subdivision

Elevation Profile Web Service

Ride the City.com• Uses own database of trails for routing, OSM for map• Planning switch to OSM for routing

o Test server setup for Baltimore-Washington metro area

OpenTripPlanner.com

• Multi-modal trip planner (walking, biking, transit)

Humanitarian Relief

• Dedicated Humanitarian OpenStreetMap teamo Humanitarian Response & Economic Development

• Haiti, Sendai, Libya, and many others• Used by Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Team (VA-

TF1) during Haiti response

CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Erica 'junipermarie' http://flic.kr/p/7f9a9y Courtesy VA-TF1 member

OSM Data Model

• Three feature types:o Nodes (points, vertices)o Ways (edges, lines)o Relations

• Areas as closed ways, or multipolygons with relations • Tags (attributes) open ended

o Key-value system, string basedo e.g. name=Patrick Henry Library,amenity=library

•  Topologicalo Ways connect with common node

• Features have unique internal id + version number

On-the-ground Surveying

Photo CC-BY-SA Gordon Joly http://flic.kr/p/4KPZ8B

Walking Papers.org

• Print, survey & annotate, scan, edit

Aerial Imagery

VBMP 2007 (6-inch)

• Microsoft Bing imagery (global), federal/state/local imagery

Potlatch2 - online editor

JOSM - Java editor

• MapDust - error reportingo Embed on any website

• JOSM validatoro Checks before uploading

• OSM Watch Listo Reports of changes in an area

• KeepRighto Automatic error detection

• Many other specialized tools

Quality Assurance

Safe Routes to School

• US federal program to:o Promote walking and biking to schoolo Provide funding for improvement of infrastructure

• Maps are a critical component of SRTS application• No standard method to produce maps

Safe Routes to SchoolMapping Toolkit

• Just a concept! • Automatic creation of maps for SRTS applications

o No GIS skills neededo Near-professional quality, standardized maps

• OSM-basedo Community can map infrastructureo Benefits other data users (routing, printed maps, etc.)o Toolkit can be used across the country

• Map typeso Current and planned infrastructureo Walkability analysis (distance maps)

% improvement in access

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Safe_Routes_to_School_Mapping_Toolkit

Walkability Example

• Terra Centre Elementary School o New sidewalk being builto Already mapped trails and sidewalks o Determine walkability before and after construction

• Assumptions:o 1 mile walking distance (show 1/4 mile increments)o Unsafe to walk along secondary roads and aboveo Unsafe to cross secondary and above without crossing

•  Could add more criteriao Elevation, curb cuts (wheelchair accessibility)

Walkability before new sidewalk

Attendance boundary in green

Walkability after new sidewalk

Attendance boundary in green

Notes

• This presentation is licensed CC-BY-SA• Some slides CC-BY-SA Harry Wood http://goo.gl/iHYN9

 • Some links: • http://www.openstreetmap.org• http://www.open.mapquest.com• http://open.mapquest.com/ • http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Safe_Routes_to_School_Mapping_Toolkit • "OpenStreetMap: Data Model,

Crowdsourcing, and Technology", http://www.applied-geoinformatics.org/index.php/agse/agse2010/paper/view/181/115