BLR Road Quality

A map to visualize the quality of roads in Bengaluru, using data from OpenStreetMap.

Motivation

Inspired by a post on Skyscraper City and my time spent on the roads of Bengaluru.

Contribution Guide

Create an Issue

Name of the road
Quality of the road
Date on which observation was made

Once the issue is created, a volunteer will add the data to OpenStreetMap within a few days. The information will be reflected on the visualization the day after data is added to OpenStreetMap.

Google Forms (TODO)

Telegram (TODO)

Deploying the site

Install osmtogeojson

npm install -g osmtogeojson

Export a .geojson with the latest data from OpenStreetMap by running the overpass-query.sh script

bash overpass-query.sh

Local

Setup a HTTP server for serving the site locally with Python

python3 -m http.server

The site will be available at http://127.0.0.1:8000

Internet

Deploy the site to a static site hosting service of your choice (GitHub Pages, Netlify, Cloudflare)

Future Plans

Ideas and future plans are documented on the issues page

Vonter/blr-road-quality