This information was sent out by the Bicycle Advisory Committee. The purpose is to gather data for local streets to improve the OpenStreetMap wiki to make it a better tool to solve problems involving parking and transportation in Newton.
Time: January 21, 6:30PM to 8:30PM
Location: Cafeteria, Newton City Hall, 1000 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, Mass.This workshop is open to any city resident or interested community member. Requirements are a laptop or tablet with wi-fi capability and a browser. We will be digitizing data that already exists in either spreadsheet or document form, with some of our personal experiences as required. There will be some easy data entries and so hard ones, we will work to make sure that anything given to you is at a level you are comfortable at. The data is mainly regarding parking type, and time around the city of Newton. This will be used for a bicycle route comfort evaluation as well as by the City of Newton. The workshop/hackathon will be led by folks at MassGIS.
At this hackathon/party, we will be editing OpenStreetMap so that it will reflect Newton’s parking regulations.
Use this form to let them know if you can attend:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1voZAPR9Xxco1diJ-EmFnEwSMmlTMjw3gUVkeS6XtdPE/viewform
Questions? Send e-mail to One Hwang
Thanks for posting Adam!
This is interesting. The Area Council surveyed parking usage and regulations last year in the Highlands. It would be cool to have a map for parking information as the city looks to update parking.
Hi Groot,
We received the Highlands study, and will see what we can do to add some of the information from that document into this project! I also expect there will be a couple more of these events, depending on turnout next week and what we get done.
“The Mom’s Connection” is a local mothers’ network that meets Friday mornings at the Newton Presbyterian Church. The group includes infant, nursery and children’s programs. For more information and to register, call Nici Smith at 617-921-3718 or e-mail [email protected].