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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

Neighborhood Associations and Housing Equity

Neighborhood Associations and Housing Equity

Spatial analysis and a StoryMap was used to look at the relationship between neighborhood associations and housing equity. The full StoryMap is at: https://mark.stosberg.com/associations-equity Research Impact * This spatial analysis was featured in the CityScape journal as a collaboration with Deborah Myerson under the article title Mapping

Who Gets to Walk Safely? A Sidewalk Equity Audit

Who Gets to Walk Safely? A Sidewalk Equity Audit

This is an executive summary of a sidewalk equity audit conducted in Bloomington, Indiana and delivered to City leaders on November 9th, 2020. The full report is here: https://mark.stosberg.com/sidewalk-equity-audit Recently, Bloomington, Indiana’s Mayor Hamilton announced the Recover Forward Bloomington plan. This plan prioritizes rebuilding from