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Mapping Sydney Billboards: Every QMS advertising panel in Sydney

Through August and October I visited every QMS advertising panel in the City of Sydney. I surveyed their location and ref code to add to OpenStreetMap, an open geospatial database that powers many maps worldwide. I uploaded photos of many displays to Mapillary, which you can view by clicking on pins in the map above.

Submission – Alexandria to Moore Park Connector

(Note this submission extends, updates, and adapts a previous WalkSydney post) WalkSydney is pleased to make a submission on the Alexandria to Moore Park Connector. WalkSydney is a community group working to make it easier, safer and more pleasant to walk in Sydney. With a growing population we need to ensure people can easily walkContinue reading “Submission – Alexandria to Moore Park Connector”

Green Square deserves A (pedestrian-accessible) Green Square

Green Square library is just across the four and a half lane Botany Road from the Green Square Station. I wants to cross, but I am not supposed to. Strangely the authorities forgot to finish the fencing that would make its isolation complete.

Let us speak not of beautiful glass boxes. Let us dream not of transit-oriented design. Instead, let us talk about the multi-jurisdictional, dysfunctional pedestrian nightmare that is today’s Green Square redevelopment, (map) . So I am walking down the West side of Wyndham Street (as I am wont to do) and want to go toContinue reading “Green Square deserves A (pedestrian-accessible) Green Square”