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Wheelygood's avatar

Thanks for this summary of free tools.

Streetview history can be useful to see evolution of streetscapes.

Here is another walking and cycling catchment mapper:

https://pedestriancatch.com/

The Dekra vision zero global map may also be useful to find places to see what success can look like:

https://www.dekra-vision-zero.com/map

The French cycling barometer is a cool piece of consultation mapping

barometre.parlons-velo.fr/2021/carte/?c=75056

Finally, Blitzortung is my favourite free service that tracks live lighting globally. There are a few apps that use the service to provide proximity warnings so you can decide to walk or ride early or wait it out somewhere safe.

https://www.blitzortung.org/en/live_lightning_maps.php

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Andy Boenau's avatar

Thanks, I hadn't heard of those.

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Isaac's avatar

i’d add close.city to the list

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Jeremy Levine's avatar

Love it! Another cool tool in the making: Red Tape Recordings is creating a searchable database of transcripts from all public meetings http://redtaperecordings.com/early

You can upload video clips of meetings now and get searchable text, but it’s brand new so not much of a database yet!

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Andy Boenau's avatar

Haven't seen that one yet, thanks.

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Paul D's avatar

Thanks Andy!

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David Muccigrosso's avatar

I’d want to see a tool that replicates the Urban3 analysis on any given city street.

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