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

Submit a new issue with details about:

• 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