Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social
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For urban planners, transportation advocates and spatial analysts,

I'm making progress on packaging a number of algorithms useful for for building a heatmap useful for complex priority calculations. I developed these tools for figuring out the optimal location to fund sidewalks where demand was high and safety benefits would be maximal.

The toolkit is described more here:
mark.stosberg.com/toolkit-for-

In progress is plugin version with GUIs for easy use and customization.

Screenshot of QGIS GIS app showing some new algorithms appearing in the processing toolbox.
Mark Stosberg @markstos@urbanists.social
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Update, I've added enough algorithms to my Sidewalk Priority Toolkit for in an initial release and tested it now with the QGIS model builder:

Successfully created a model which took several custom layers for a city and then was able to generate a heatmap which could factor in walk potential (demand) and other metrics like already traffic-calmed locations and demographic data like percentage of car ownership in the area.

Screenshot of algorithm listing Screenshot of QGIS Model builder
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