Sidewalk Widths Toronto uses the City of Toronto's open sidewalk dataset to produce a map of sidewalk widths for the city.
This is inspired by, and forked from, Meli Harvey's Sidewalk Widths NYC project. We borrow methods and code from the original project.
This repo contains the notebooks to reproduce this work, as well as the finished Sidewalk Width dataset in GeoJSON format.
https://sharedstreets.github.io/sidewalkwidths-toronto/
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Polygons from City of Toronto's open data portal:
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Dissolved touching sidewalk polygons (this example doesn't show a difference)
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Find sidewalk centerlines
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Remove short ends and simplify
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Measure distance from centerlines to original polygon
This repo is adapted from Meli Harvey's original work. The Toronto dataset was created with python debugging and cloud processing help from Jennings Anderson, as well as input from Raphael Dumas at the City of Toronto. Thanks!