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EqualStreetNames Wiesbaden

Ausschnitt der EqualStreetNames Wiesbaden-Karte

Im Mai bin ich zum ersten Mal auf das Projekt EqualStreetNames aufmerksam geworden, das in der OpenStreetMap Wochennotiz vorgestellt wurde.

EqualStreetNames will mit Hilfe öffentlich zugänglicher Daten die Gender-Ungleichheit bei der Vergabe von Straßennamen aufzeigen:

The names of public spaces (streets, avenues, squares and others) define the identity of a city and how citizens interact with it. The region of Brussels suffers from a major inequality between male and female street names and we want to help fix this.

There are several ways to approach the inequality of street names and leverage a positive change in our society. Ours is with the use of Open Data to create a map visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender.

The project start with Brussels, Belgium in March 2020 and since then, this project has been replicated in several cities across multiple countries.

tl;dr

  • Auf der interaktiven Karte unter wiesbaden.equalstreetnames.eu kann für viele Wiesbadener Straßen nachgsehen, wer Namensgeber*in ist;
  • eine Statistik gibt auch das Verhältnis von männlichen zu weiblichen Personen an;
  • Immer mehr Städte machen bei diesem Projekt mit, das ursprünglich aus Brüssel stammt;
  • Ich beschreibe mein Vorgehen bei Recherche, Datensammlung, Mapping in OSM und Generierung der Karte.
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Andy is a member of the WikiProject Microformats, a group of users who want to actively promote the use of microformats in the world's greates encyclopedia. Great job!