Taking imagery of bike lanes at risk and using it to help fix bike parking

Taking imagery of bike lanes at risk and using it to help fix bike parking

We took street-level imagery on Bloor St, Yonge St, University Ave, Queen’s Park Cres, and Avenue Rd to create a digital record of bike lanes at risk from Ontario Bill 212 and to help analyze…

Taking imagery of bike lanes in Toronto: 60,000 photos later…

Imagery Update After a summer and fall of taking 360 imagery of bike lanes, I finished capturing street-level imagery of all the protected bike lanes in the City’s dataset. The last segment on November 8 was the final part of the new Harbord St bike lanes E of Grace St. So far, I’ve captured over…

Dissecting Doug Ford’s Bike Lane Removal Annoucement

A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)

Street-level imagery: licensing challenges and benefits of recording from a bike instead of a vehicle

In the previous post, I talked about collecting street-level imagery while biking using a helmet-mounted camera and sharing it via services that are open license. In this post, I’ll dig deeper on two related questions. First, why is it important to use open license services instead of Google Street View? Second, what are the advantages…

We Were Wrong About Sharrows | PeopleForBikes

It was the late 1990s and I thought we were so clever. We had just convinced the San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic to incorporate an innovative new design into its bike plan, a bold statement conveying “bikes belong” right there in the middle of the street. I had first seen a shared-use marking, or “sharrow” — a white bicycle painted directly on asphalt — in photos of Paris and Chicago, put there to help bicyclists get through intersections by indicating their path of travel. In 1993, James McKay, a bike planner in Denver, used it on a trial basis to emphasize a bicyclist’s right to ride in the middle of the lane.

Intranational International Boulevard: A Street's Atlas - Oakland - LocalWiki

The Intranational International Boulevard: A Street's Atlas is a cool mapping project done by students in the UC Berkeley’s Cartography and GIS Education (CAGE) Lab. It maps International Blvd. in a variety of hyper-local ways.

Motorists in one of a Montreal’s busiest boroughs support bike lanes

There are real tensions between cyclists, motorists and pedestrians sharing the road, but Montrealers believe traffic-calming measures — bike lanes, speed humps and curb extensions — can improve safety for all road users.

Why is the Trump administration calling bike lanes ‘DEI’? | Dave Schilling

The government apparently has an issue with paths for cyclists. Take it from someone who can’t ride a bike: this makes no sense

Reflection on Berkeley’s Bike Lane Drama

Hopkins bike lanes get approved for at least a third time. The drama won’t stop here.

Chicago's Bike Lanes Don't Hurt Businesses, City Report Finds

As protected bike lanes face opposition in some neighborhoods, city-backed case studies found lanes in a half-dozen corridors have not contributed to a negative impact on economic activity.

Panoramax BikeSpace

Panoramax is a digital resource for sharing and using field photos. Anyone can take photographs of places visible from public roads and contribute them to the Panoramax database.

Historic Truckee River Bike Path

Historic Truckee River Bike Path Ride Details Challenge: A level bike ride. Caution needed with the presence of many users: pedestrians, baby strollers, joggers, pets on leashes, river rafters, and […]

Meet the army of amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks

Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes them

Public trees

The public tree dataset includes a listing of public trees on boulevards and public trees in parks, in the City of Vancouver and provides data on tree coordinates, species and other related characteristics. Private trees are not included in the inventory.Tree records that do not have coordinates data will not show up in the list. Data currencyThe dataset refreshes daily on weekdays. Tree attributes are updated on a regular basis but it may be several years between updates for some attributes. Priorities and resources determine how fast a change in reality is reflected in the data. The coordinates were originally provided by the 2016 Geospatial Data for City of Vancouver Street Trees project. Data accuracyTree attributes are updated on a regular basis but it may be several years for some attributes. Note: 0 value in latitude and longitude fields mean there is no related information available Websites for further informationStreet Tree BylawCity trees

Biidaasige Park expansion

The portion of Biidaasige Park west of Cherry Street opened this weekend. Had to see if for myself. It was great to see plenty of people walking and biking about to check it out. Here is a view of …