transit-freedom-calculator

Transit Freedom Calculator Data Processing Codebase

Methodology

Classifying Points of Interest

Points of Interest used to calculate scores for various aggrregate categories. These points of interest are extracted from Open Street Map and are classified using the amenity classification found here:

• Sustenance includes:
  • amenity.bars
  • amenity.biergarten
  • amenity.cafe
  • amenity.fast_food
  • amenity.pub
  • amenity.restaurant
  • building.supermarket
• Education includes:
  • amenity.college
  • amenity.library
  • amenity.school
  • amenity.university
• Other includes:
  • amenity.bank
  • amenity.dentist
  • amenity.clinic
  • amenity.doctors
  • amenity.hospital
  • amenity.marketplace
  • amenity.place_of_worship
• Leisure categories include: *
• Entertainment, Arts, and Culture
  • cinema
  • nightclub
  • planetarium
  • social_centre
  • theatre
• Leisure
  • leisure.dance
  • leisure.fitness_centre
• Religion

Code is run as follows: osmosis --read-pbf C:\OTP\graphs\edmonton\edmonton_canada.osm.pbf --node-key keyList="leisure" --write-xml C:\OTP\graphs\edmonton\leisure.osm