Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
V・T・E Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States  |
| latitude: 40.442, longitude: -80.000 |
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Pittsburgh is a city in Pennsylvania, United States at latitude 40°26′31.20″ North, longitude 80°00′00.00″ West.
Mappings Projects
There's been some efforts to map Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Pittsburgh e.g. adding all academic and residential building, all public greens and spaces, all paths and stairs
Other than that there's always TIGER fixup to do the area. See Pittsburgh Battle Grid
Project page for importing Allegheny County data.
Community
There some editing activity in the area these days, and quite a few users popping up on this map: Map of Pittsburgh Contributors (by centroid area of their contribution)
Maybe time for an event again! ...
There is a mailing list for Pittsburgh OSM discussion hosted by the Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group. All are welcome to subscribe.
Events
No current events, but if you'd like to be involved in making one happen... Go for it! Use the wiki page here to coordinate.
In the past some mapping party events were organised by User:Rw, User:RussNelson. Then we had a Nick D volunteering to be an organizer ( ndoiron AT cmu DOT edu for more information. Nick D ) ...but these days the meet-up group link isn't working: http://www.meetup.com/Pittsburgh-OpenStreetMap
Previous events
- March 7-8, 2009 - Mapping party at the offices of deeplocal, Inc. on (wiki history)
- November 15-16, 2008 - Panera Bread (wiki history)
Interesting/Useful resources
Be sure to check licensing before importing.
Data
- Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center: GIS data for Western Pennsylvania area, including Allegheny County, and Pittsburgh
- Port Authority of Pgh. Developer Resources data: Schedule and route data, in GTFS format
- Official datasets in PA: Information about some official city/county/state datasets which possibly could be used and/or imported.
Information
- pghbridges.com: Lots of information about local bridges
- PA Highways: Information and history of the roadways around
- SW PA Roads: Interesting things about roads nearby
- BikePGH: A group for local bikers, with a lot of discussion about local transportation infrastructure
- Doug Kerr's Pittsburgh photos: Many, many pictures of the roads in and around Pittsburgh
- Ballfield information: List and information for DPW-managed ball fields
- Brookline and Pittsburgh historical facts: A wealth of information on the history of Pittsburgh and its surroundings
- PWSA Fire Hydrant color codes: Useful information for mapping emergency=fire_hydrants
- Pittsburgh Parking Authority: Information about parking lots (with amounts of spaces, among other things)
- Former sites of railroad stations in Allegheny County: Has coordinates, pictures, and descriptions, etc. of past stations
- Wikimedia Commons - Transport in Pittsburgh: many useful pictures of Pittsburgh transportation infrastructure
Maps
- City of Pittsburgh GIS interactive web maps
- City of Pittsburgh GIS map room
- Sanborn fire insurance maps: Historic maps (quite detailed) of Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh
- G.M. Hopkins maps: Useful for historical information
- MovePGH projects map: The city's plan for transportation projects for the coming years
- Pittsburgh Police zones: Maps of the areas of the zones
- Pittsburgh fire districts: Map of the Pittsburgh Fire Department zone areas
- PWSA sewer maps: Maps of sewer pipes in the city neighborhoods
- Department of Public Works information: Maps of the areas covered by each division of the DPW, and the address of the headquarters for each division
- DPW Parks Maintenance: Addresses and map of DPW parks maintenance divisions
- Historic District maps: Maps, and more info, for City of Pittsburgh historic districts
- Pittsburgh Specially Planned Districts: Parts of the city which are apportioned for planned development
- Emergency Snow Routes: Map of which streets are Emergency Snow Routes
- Refuse Collection Schedules: Maps of areas for garbage collection schedules
- BikePGH bike map: A map the biking infrastructure of Pittsburgh
- Permit Parking area maps: Maps of the residential permit parking zones in the city
- Allegheny County park maps: Maps of the county-maintained parks
- ALCOSAN sewer mapping: Allegheny County sewer system maps
- Port Authority of Allegheny County maps: Maps for busways, bus routes, Light Rail, etc.
- Allegheny Trail Alliance maps: Maps of the Great Allegheny Passage trail, and nearby trails
- Pennsylvania#Useful resources: More resources for Pennsylvania
- City of Pittsburgh City Steps Plan
- Allegheny County Greenways