Chicago, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois

Latitude : 41.868, Longitude : -87.665

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Chicago is a city in Illinois at latitude 41.868, longitude -87.665. This page contains information relating to mapping activity that is specific to Chicago, Illinois.

Contents 1 News 2 Events 2.1 Past events 3 Chicago OSM Links 4 Tools 4.1 Data 5 Streets 5.1 --Highways-- 6 Landuse 7 Parks / Cemetaries 8 Bike Routes ‎ 9 Trains/Buses 10 Users 11 Files

News

• Mappy Hour in Chicago

• openstreetmap at flourish conference in chicago

• Midwest forecast: A warm map front moving in.

Events

Fancy running a Chicago Mapping party?

Past events

See Chicago/Past Mapping Parties

Dirk Munson ran a series of events in 2009

Chicago OSM Links

• Chicago OpenStreetMap group on Meetup.com

Tools

• OpenStreetBugs
• OSM Mapper
• Chicago Public Map
• Illinois tollroad map
• Keepright error checking

Data

• Chicago GIS Portal

Streets

• More work needs to be done categorization and tagging roads.

• most of chicago is done Nickvet419 18:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

• Roads need realigned and connected.

• I am keeping track of the progress on OpenStreetBugs and will close the tags as I progress. --Nickvet419 21:08, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
• Waker/Lower Waker finished. --Nickvet419 06:46, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
• northside done east of I-94--Nickvet419 12:08, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

• Street block numbers - For block numbers located on street signs, use loc_ref= --Nickvet419 10:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

example:

highway=primary 
name=Peterson_Avenue 
ref=US_14
loc_ref=6000_N 

• I'm slowing adding relations to routes. I don't want to make the CTA lines routes until the 0.6 API comes out (because the ordered relations makes "stop_*" roles becomes "stop" roles for stations). See also wikipedia:Category:State_highways_in_Illinois (seven of these go through Chicago) and wikipedia:Streets_and_highways_of_Chicago#Highways. --sargas 17:35, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

This list is specific to the Chicago area. See United States Road Classification‎ for tagging outside of the chicago area.

motorway	trunk	primary	secondary	tertiary	residential	unclassified	service
Interstate Highways	An Arterial Divided highway that is partially but not entirely grade separated.	US Routes,State Routes	Major Roads (Usualy roads with high amount of traffic, usually lined with businesses and controlled with traffic lights.)	County Roads.	Minor roads (Accessing or around residential areas.)	Other minor roads.	Roads found in cemeteries, parking lots, alleyways, or other services.

--Highways--

Interstate Highways

Interstate Highways Relations

United States Numbered Highway Relations

Illinois/State Highway Relations

Illinois/County Road Relations

Number - what's complete? (realigned, connected, exit numbers, bridges, Toll Plaza)

• 90/94 -

• Split-Skyway - realigned, connected, bridges.

• 90W -

• 94-294 - realigned, connected, bridges.

• 90E -

• Skyway - realigned, connected, bridges, Toll Plaza.

• 94N - realigned, connected, bridges.
• 94S -
• 190 - realigned, connected, bridges.
• 294 -
• 290 - .

• Wacker-294 - realigned, connected, bridges.

• Elgin\Ohare -
• 355 -
• 88 W - realigned, connected, exit names (no numbers on toll road), bridges, Toll plaza, Extended Relation complete to end at I80
• 55 -

• LSD-294 - realigned, connected, bridges.

• 57 -
• 80/94 -
• 80W -

Landuse

• areas need marked where landuse can be applied.

Parks / Cemetaries

• Cemetary roads need finished
• Parks need maped /w footpaths and buildings.

Bike Routes ‎

• Illinois/Bike_Routes#Cook - Keeping track of cycle mapping efforts and relations.
• Chicago Bike Map
• To Do:

• Streets need to be marked with bike lanes.
• Bike trails need to be marked.

• BBBike @ Chicago - a cycle route planner for Chicago

Trains/Buses

Illinois/Railway Relations

Chicago, Illinois/Bus Route Relations

railway=rail	railway=subway	railway=disused	railway=abandoned	service=yard	service=siding/spur	railway=subway_entrance	railway=level_crossing	railway=station
Main rail lines	CTA lines	Railway unused but track remains	Path of Railway remains but track removed	Rail yard area	Rail line not part of main line	Entrance to underground subway	Where rail crosses a road without a bridge.	Metra and CTA stations.

• North side main line has inner and outer tracks (which are shared by Purple and Brown line trains), while south of Armitage/Shefield there are abandoned outer tracks until Chicago/Franklin

• Tracks should be marked in pairs with the path running down the middle of 2 tracks. If there are 4 tracks, you should use 2 paths to mark them.

• Chicago and Northwestern RR, the tracks of which has been removed in the 70s, now carry power lines and according to http://skokie.org/comm/Comprehensive_Plan/2020PlanforSectorADowntownmaponly.pdf may carry an extension of the Skokie Valley Trail. Perhaps the tracks should be removed

• We should follow the standards set by Key:railway Until the trail has been built on or transformed into a bike trail, the parts of the trail left should still hold the railway=abandoned or railway=disused tag.

• Chicago 'L'

Users

If you are working on the Chicago area, sign here:

• Nickvet419
• Sargas
• JeremyA
• Praveen
• DirkMunson
• jlyo
• BBMiller
• Umbugbene

Files

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  Map of Chicago from OpenStreetMap

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  City of Chicago Flag

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  OSM Mapper 1 Year of Edits

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  Chicago User Edits

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  First Chicago Mappy Hour

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