OpenSidewalks

OpenSidewalks⚓︎

OpenSidewalks (OSW) is an initiative led by the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology (TCAT) at the University of Washington (UW).

OpenSidewalks seeks to provide a specification that is not only compatible with OpenStreetMap but is a comprehensive and accessibility-forward specification for mapping sidewalks and related pedestrian infrastructure features.

OpenSidewalks Schema⚓︎

The OpenSidewalks Schema is an open pedestrian transportation infrastructure network data standard for describing and sharing pedestrian network and pedestrian network-adjacent data. The OpenSidewalks Schema promotes an explicit network (graph) model that represents a traversable and graph-analyzable network of pedestrian paths such as sidewalks, street crossings, some streets, and other paths, as well as metadata representing potential barriers.

The OpenSidewalks Schema draws from and is intended to be largely compatible with OpenStreetMap data, though it is possible to create OpenSidewalks Schema data not derived from OpenStreetMap.

OSW on the OSM US Tasking Manager⚓︎

The OpenStreetMap US Tasking Manager is a Tasking Manager instance for coordinating contributions to OSM and is open to all OSM users.

TCAT operates the OpenSidewalks organization on the OSM US Tasking Manager and coordinates both community mapping projects and TCAT-directed organized editing following OpenSidewalks in OpenStreetMap guidelines.

Additional details about this organized editing activity can be found on the Organised Editing/Activities/OpenSidewalks page on the OSM Wiki.

Guides⚓︎

OpenSidewalks Guides

For a list of all guides on the TCAT Wiki, refer to the Guides List.

OpenSidewalks Schema Guides⚓︎

Core Edges in OSW⚓︎

This guide shows how to convert existing sidewalk centerline datasets into OpenSidewalks (OSW) format for upload to the Transportation Data Exchange Initiative (TDEI).

Custom Points in OSW⚓︎

This guide shows how to add custom non-routable point features (like bus stops) to an OpenSidewalks dataset using the Custom Points entity type.

OpenSidewalks in OpenStreetMap⚓︎

This guide explains how to make edits to OpenStreetMap following and supporting the OpenSidewalks schema.

OSW on the OSM US Tasking Manager Guides⚓︎

Tasking Manager User Manual⚓︎

This user manual explains how to use the OSM US Tasking Manager platform.

Task Polygon Automation Guide⚓︎

This guide shows the steps for an automated workflow that generates task polygons for use in Tasking Manager.