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Should private parks be included in Walk Potential?

Should private parks be included in Walk Potential?

When calculating the Walk Potential of locations, one metric that's considered is parks with 10-minute walk from a location. Should private parks be be included in the calculation? I think it depends on how you plan to use it. The original use of Walk Potential was to aid

Who can walk to parks in Bloomington, Indiana?

Who can walk to parks in Bloomington, Indiana?

Here's a map of the buildings in Bloomington along with parks in light green and areas within a 10 minute walk in translucent green. Observations 1. The "Ped shed" around Cascades, the big park at the north appears too ambitious, perhaps because it's in

Measuring the Walk Potential of Large Amenities

Measuring the Walk Potential of Large Amenities

To calculate the Walk Potential around most amenities, we find the center of amenity, and generate a 10-minute walk radius around it. This area called a "ped shed" or more technically an isochrone. That works well for a small downtown store front, but it's not great

How to Create a Heatmap of Sidewalk Location Priority

How to Create a Heatmap of Sidewalk Location Priority

Your city has an incomplete sidewalk network. The budget to build new sidewalks is limited. Which sidewalks should prioritized to build next in a way that is objective, transparent and improves transportation equity? Here's how to build to heatmap of locations to prioritize to build sidewalks, based on

How to map apartment buildings in OpenStreetMap using ID and JOSM

Here I show briefly how to add apartment buildings in OpenStreetMap using the web-based editor on https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and also the desktop Java editor, JOSM. Installing and setting up JOSM is not covered. Mapping local apartment buildings was useful to support spatial analysis about Neighborhood Associations and Housing

A map of missing sidewalks in Bloomington, Indiana

How to create a missing sidewalk map in QGIS

If you've got a GIS map of your city's roads and a map of your city's sidewalk, you can use the QGIS software to create a map of your missing sidewalks. A missing sidewalk map can be useful to plan where new sidewalks should

Software to Calculate Walk Potential for Cities

Software to Calculate Walk Potential for Cities

I have open-sourced code to calculate walk potential for cities. Some assembly required. Walk Potential Calculator This code is used to calculate "walk potential" across a city. It's based on the 10 Minute Neighborhood concept of having a neighborhood with having many common types of destinations