EqualStreetNames is an open source project aiming to map the streets of cities by gender.
The names of public spaces (streets, avenues, squares and others) define the identity of a city and how citizens interact with it. Many cities around the world suffer from a major inequality between male and female street names and we want to help fix this.
There are several ways to approach the inequality of street names and leverage a positive change in our society. Ours is with the use of Open Data to create a map visualizing the streetnames of Brussels by gender.
How did we make this map?
To make this happen, we used open data - data which can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose - from OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia.
The ultimate goal is to link the data from Wikidata (the database of Wikipedia) to OpenStreetMap. This is clearly explained in the subpages
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