Supporting Bycicle Use in Brasilia

"Brasilia is not a city designed for bicycles and pedestrians, it is a city designed for cars." This sentence is very common among Brazilian people. Nonetheless, the government seems to be changing the image of the city. The Federal district government carries out a bike path of 600 km till 2014 [1]. With this achievement, Brasilia will have one of the world's largest bicycle lanes. Continued efforts by Brasilia municipalities are based on belief that most urban residents are currently using cars as a means of transport and not sustainable means of transportation.

Many people may not know that Brasilia is now the capital of Brazil. People will say that Rio de Janeiro is right, but now it is not. Actually there is a small story about it. Reason why it moved to Brazilia. The Brazilian capital moved to Brazilia as believing that building a city in an area where the president is not in the vicinity of the sea is safe and attacked more than the coast. That's why Brasilia is located in the center of Brazil, a place with a high altitude, in the form of an airplane. Many people come from all over Brazil to build this magical city with mixed diversity and cross-cultures. It is wonderful to fly the city. !

A lot of things have already begun. Brasilia is frequently reported in OpenStreetMap and it is improving rapidly. Our teams Ruben, Chad, Dan have tracked many cities around Brazilia over the past two weeks. Below are the progress made by all OpenStreetMap contributors from the beginning of the month. For Sunday mapping on the ground, we will add local knowledge. We are planning to prepare walking documents, take a camera and GPS, get on the bus, and gather data on street names and points of interest. We are still figuring out what to focus on, but this may be the easiest for us so we may choose Taguatinga and its surrounding areas. Please let us know the specific areas you think you can benefit from better local geographic information

OpenStreetMap is an important open data platform for the government to adopt open data and is becoming the focus of the OGP High Level Meeting to be held next week in Brazilia. Eric and I joined the OGP Innovation Village on Tuesday and released an open source map tool using OpenStreetMap and MapBox Streets, and on Wednesday they said "On the means as open data, not the end: achieve the impact" in the morning Publish data. In order to start the OGP conference, we map Brasilia on OpenStreetMap on Sunday afternoon. If you join us, we will be very happy

Ribeiro visited Brasilia earlier this week to participate in discussions on constitutional amendments that are controversial at the Senate Human Rights Committee meeting. The revised bill approved by the House of Representatives will be discussed at the Senate this month and will be voted on November 29th.