Pin drop in Philly

[JimSpath]

Since @StephanieMarley asked if we had a good time in Philadelphia after the Inside Track get-together at Newtown Square, I decided to share images and data manipulation related to Center City.

Openstreetmap.org allows user edits of geotagged data, similar to Wikipedia, and I've been contributing content such as EV charger details, public artwork (conceptual continuity), and, the most complex, public transport Metadata.

Here's one view:

OpenStreetMap edit screen with Panoramax inset

I took the image in Arch Street and 21st, then uploaded it to Panoramax.  You can see the yellow cone of shame where my camera GPS slightly wrongly placed the capture point.

Panoramax is open source imagery hosted mainly in France. I'm am early adopter so areas I cover have no prior images.

Instead of a sequence that I might do on a walk, I just pushed the one image in the thumbnail to Panoramax. The other side of the sign doesn't say nothing, it says the same thing. Exactly I think, though the blue patch seems like an edit (like a blue pencil moment).

Stop 3092, obverse.

I kind of like that identification number is abbreviated with 2 poitns: I.D.

Adding the missing bus stop to OpenStreetMap took a bit of study so as not to go around the local norms, if any. Bad updates can be rolled back or written over; not screwing it up the 1st time helps. 

OSM with a wide Panoramax view.

After my edits started, OSM came back with a message "these are the tags you are looking for", thus simplifying my entry time. I found stop 3092 by searching the Septa.org site, as follows:

Screenshot of bus route 48, Market to Allegheny, SEPTA

Note the route number (48) in the URL. After some mind bending, I found the relevant URL with the stop number embedded.

Screenshot from SEPTA with stop 3092, 21st and Arch flagged as a pin point.

See: https://www.septa.org/realtime-map/stop/3092?routes=48&focused=48&direction=1 , at least until the next database rewrite.

Happy trails!