Moin @ADFC_Hamburg @CriticalMassHamburg @VCDNord – kanntet ihr schon mapcomplete.org/ghostbikes.htm… ? Irgendwer in Hamburg hat da jedenfalls schon einige (noch nicht alle) eingetragen.

Bin drauf gestupst worden, als ich gestern vorm Start der CM mit @pietervdvn von @MapComplete ins Gespräch kam, der zum #37C3 hier ist. – Ich glaube, es gibt ziemlich viele faszinierende Schnittpunkte zwischen #FOSS, #VerkehrsWende und #Aktivismus überhaupt :)

in reply to Pietervdvn

For example, the #cycling #association (#Fietsersbond) in #Brugge did measure the widths of all the streets in the old city center. There is a rule in the Belgian road code which says that a car needs to leave at least one meter of room when overtaking a bicycle. We also have a special traffic sign, making this explicit. This is the result: mapcomplete.org/width?z=14.3&l…
in reply to Pietervdvn

This is neat! In our place the rule is even 1.5m clearance for overtaking within city boundaries and 2m on country roads. But that‘s pure theory, as most car drivers don‘t know or care about this rule. (And we don’t have an official sign for it.)

As to #FOSS here, I know about (though have never used) the openbikesensor.org hardware that measures these distances in real life. Also very interesting!

@ADFC_Hamburg @CriticalMassHamburg @VCDNord @MapComplete

in reply to Parents For Future Hamburg

About the legal distance: if you measure the street width, one can easily adjust the rendering to show different colours.
The openBikeSensor is cool, but quite unactionable data sadly.

Btw, the Belgian Cycling Association has a 'measurement bicyle' for cycling infrastructure: fietsersbond.be/meetfiets