Comments on: Wiki Wednesday: Community Mapping http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/12/03/wiki-wednesday-community-mapping/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:23:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Aaron Antrim http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/12/03/wiki-wednesday-community-mapping/comment-page-1/#comment-3289 Aaron Antrim Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:36:21 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=1458#comment-3289 I think one of the best approaches we take to make biking directions happen in more places on the web is to make Open Street Map a more complete resource for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure You can download Open Street Map data to a Garmin GPS unit, and use <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Maplint" rel="nofollow">Maplint</a> to highlight some areas that need help. Then, you can use a handheld GPS to capture data for streets whose data is poor and uploads it back to OSM. And then, bike network data is available to be used a multi-modal trip planner like the open source <a href="http://graphserver.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Graphserver</a>. A lot of folks are interested in multi-modal trip planners. It’s one of the most common requests the folks at TriMet in Portland, OR, receive, for example. The best outcome for the long-term, I think, is for bike route information to be available a variety of different ways. I think one of the best approaches we take to make biking directions happen in more places on the web is to make Open Street Map a more complete resource for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure

You can download Open Street Map data to a Garmin GPS unit, and use Maplint to highlight some areas that need help. Then, you can use a handheld GPS to capture data for streets whose data is poor and uploads it back to OSM.

And then, bike network data is available to be used a multi-modal trip planner like the open source Graphserver.

A lot of folks are interested in multi-modal trip planners. It’s one of the most common requests the folks at TriMet in Portland, OR, receive, for example. The best outcome for the long-term, I think, is for bike route information to be available a variety of different ways.

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