Richmond, Virginia

V・T・E Richmond, Virginia, United States

latitude: 37.5360, longitude: -77.4516

Browse map of Richmond 37°32′09.60″ N, 77°27′05.76″ W

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Users in Richmond GPS traces Geohack for OSM with more maps

External links: Notes Quality checks with Osmose Keep Right! OSM Inspector Streets without names CheckAutopista2 Public transport with öpnvkarte.de Wikipedia: en Wikimedia Commons OpenStreetMap contributors map Mapillary KartaView

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Richmond is a city in Virginia, United States at latitude 37°32′09.60″ North, longitude 77°27′05.76″ West.

Local user group
Map RVA
Meetings
When:	bi-weekly
Where:	variable (map)
Mailing list
no mailing list
Website
[coming soon!]
Image
no image

Connect with Local Mappers

There are few ways to connect to the OSM community in Richmond.

The Slack Channel #local-rva

Our channel on the OpenStreetMap US Slack workspace is a great place to connect on projects and share events.

MapRVA Meetup

We meet bi-weekly and announce via OSMCal and mastodon.

Our Website

Read more about our work at maprva.org

GitHub Organization

We publish code repositories in our GitHub organization, MapRVA.

Editing Richmond on OpenStreetMap

Editing Guidelines

Main article: Richmond, Virginia/Tags

First of all, thank you for helping improve OSM in our city! Our community has an evolving set of guidelines to help keep tags consistent across Richmond. Please see our tagging page for detailed information, and please be in touch if you'd like to help develop these guidelines.

Data Sources

Beside global aerial imagery from e.g. Bing, here are some sources that are uniquely helpful in Richmond:

• Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP) orthoimagery is available courtesy of the state, and made available in the Background Settings menu of the iD editor.
  • VBMP imagery is updated on a rolling basis, one of three regions of Virginia gets updated each year. See the above link for more information.
• Bing Streetside imagery is available throughout Richmond, usually from 2021 or newer. This imagery is available in iD under Map Data > Photo Overlays.

Tasking Manager projects in Richmond

OpenStreetMap US Task Manager tasks

Name of Task	Date Launched	Last Contribution	Theme	Mapped (%)	Validated (%)	Status
Mapping Pedestrian Infrastructure in RVA	2023-08-02	2024-04-12	mobility; pedestrian; disability	39	20	Active

MapRoulette challenges in Richmond

MapRoulette challenges

Name of Challenge	Date Launched	Last Contribution	Theme	Mapped (%)	Validated (%)	Status
Updating Cycling Infrastructure in RVA	2023-11-23	2024-02-11	mobility; cycling	77	0	Active

Other Projects

Adding Name Etymology

At the 2023-11-23 meeting of MapRVA, we started adding Etymology tags to features in&around Richmond.

Updating RPS Schools

Many RPS Schools have closed or been renamed since they were added to OSM. Probably a good candidate for a MapRoulette challenge

Update GRTC Bus Routes and Stops

An unknown number of GRTC routes and stops are out-of-date on OSM.

• It is unclear if GTFS data from GRTC is OK to publish under the ODbL, but it probably isn't. They have not responded to a request for license clarification and we need to follow up.
• It would be valuable to tag bus stops with more information about the amenities they provide. Many GRTC bus stops look like this and are difficult to access. This data may help us advocate for better bus stop infrastructure.

Quality Assurance

Tools to monitor mapping activity around RVA

• OSMCha filter for changesets impacting footways, cycleways, etc. (maintained by dpschep (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)

Sidewalk Validation

This is a styled Overpass Ultra query to help quickly validate tasks for the Sidewalk mapping project

---
style:
  sources:
    Tasks:
      type: geojson
      data: https://tasks-backend.openstreetmap.us/api/v2/projects/438/tasks/?as_file=true
  layers:
    - type: line
      filter: [==, [get, footway], link]
      paint:
        line-width: 4
        line-color:
         - case
         - [has, surface]
         - blue
         - red
    - type: line
      filter: [==, [get, footway], sidewalk]
      paint:
        line-width: 4
        line-color:
         - case
         - [has, surface]
         - green
         - yellow
    - type: line
      filter:
        - all
        - ["!=", [get, footway], link]
        - ["!=", [get, footway], sidewalk]
      paint:
        line-width: 4
        line-color:
         - case
         - [has, surface]
         - teal
         - orange
    - type: line
      source: Tasks
      paint:
        line-color: gray
        line-width: 2
    - type: symbol
      source: Tasks
      layout:
        text-font: [Open Sans Regular]
        text-field: "{taskId}"
---
[bbox:{{bbox}}];
(
way[highway=footway];
way[highway=path];
way[highway=cycleway];
);
out geom;

Load query in Overpass Ultra