Chicago, Illinois
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 Chicago, Illinois
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| 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.
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News
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
Tools
- OpenStreetBugs
- OSM Mapper
- Chicago Public Map
- Illinois tollroad map
- Keepright error checking
Data
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 |
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| 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--
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 
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 |
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| 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.
Users
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Files
City of Chicago Flag
OSM Mapper 1 Year of Edits
Chicago User Edits
First Chicago Mappy Hour
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