EqualStreetNames

This project is coordinated by Open Knowledge Belgium with the support of OpenStreetMap Belgium and Wikimedia Belgium.

EqualStreetNames is made possible thanks to equal.brussels.

Why

The names of public spaces (streets, avenues, squares and others) define the identity of a city and how citizens interact with it. The region of Brussels suffers 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 a city by gender.

The project start with Brussels, Belgium in March 2020 and since then, this project has been replicated in several cities across multiple countries.

You can see all the cities on a map: https://equalstreetnames.org/

Country	City	Link	Data Repository	Maintainer	Deploy
🇧🇪	Brussels	equalstreetnames.brussels	Repository	@jbelien
🇦🇹	Vienna	vienna.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository
🇧🇾	Minsk	minsk.equalstreetnames.org	Repository
🇧🇪	Antwerpen	antwerpen.equalstreetnames.be	Repository	@stijnhuy
🇧🇪	Braine-l'Alleud	braine-lalleud.equalstreetnames.be	Repository	@eMerzh
🇧🇪	Brugge	brugge.equalstreetnames.be	Repository
🇧🇪	Gent	gent.equalstreetnames.be	Repository
🇧🇪	Leuven	leuven.equalstreetnames.be	Repository
🇧🇪	Liège	liege.equalstreetnames.be	Repository
🇧🇪	Mons	mons.equalstreetnames.be	Repository
🇧🇪	Namur	namur.equalstreetnames.be	Repository
🇧🇪	Nivelles	nivelles.equalstreetnames.be	Repository
🇧🇪	Rixensart	rixensart.equalstreetnames.be	Repository	@vdarmsta
🇪🇪	Tallinn	tallinn.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@62mkv
🇪🇪	Tartu	tartu.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@62mkv
🇫🇷	Saint-Brieuc	saint-brieuc.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository
🇩🇪	Berlin	equalstreetnames-berlin.openstreetmap.de	Repository	@gislars
🇩🇪	Brandenburg an der Havel	brandenburg-an-der-havel.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@Itchiii
🇩🇪	Dresden	dresden.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@Itchiii
🇩🇪	Frankfurt am Main	frankfurt.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@BerenikeRe
🇩🇪	Freiburg im Breisgau	freiburg-im-breisgau.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@Sequynth
🇩🇪	Freising	freising.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@zorae
🇩🇪	Halle (Saale)	halle-saale.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@hjoertel
🇩🇪	Kaiserslautern	kaiserslautern.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@BerenikeRe
🇩🇪	Leipzig	leipzig.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@imlabormitlea-code
🇩🇪	Mainz	mainz.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@BerenikeRe
🇩🇪	Munich	munich.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@ynux
🇩🇪	Rastede	rastede.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@u6CqmdfBgm
🇩🇪	Wiesbaden	wiesbaden.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@mattsches
🇮🇹	Bolzano	bolzano.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@abonte
🇱🇺	Luxembourg	luxembourg.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@DavidMoraisFerreira
🇲🇪	Tivat	tivat.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@62mkv
🇳🇱	Assen	assen.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@robinlinde
🇳🇱	Groningen	groningen.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@robinlinde
🇳🇱	Leiden	leiden.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@RMHogervorst
🇵🇭	San Pablo	sanpablo.equalstreetnames.org	Repository
🇵🇱	Chorzów	chorzow.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@ArturLange
🇵🇱	Warsaw	warsaw.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@starsep
🇷🇸	Belgrade	naziviulica.openstreetmap.rs	Repository	@stalker314314
🇸🇰	Bratislava	bratislava.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@MichalPP
🇿🇦	Cape Town	capetown.equalstreetnames.org	Repository	@Rodeobe
🇪🇸	Bilbao	bilbao.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@Theklan
🇪🇸	Madrid	madrid.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository
🇨🇭	Basel	basel.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@CaptainInler
🇨🇭	Bern	bern.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@habi
🇨🇭	Lausanne	lausanne.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@eginhard
🇨🇭	St. Gallen	stgallen.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@1-Byte
🇨🇭	Zurich	zurich.equalstreetnames.eu	Repository	@CaptainInler
🇬🇧	Chester-le-Street	chester-le-street.equalstreetnames.org	Repository
🇺🇸	San Francisco	sanfrancisco.equalstreetnames.org	Repository

How

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.

For more details, see docs/README.md

Data

Data is available in the data/ directory of each city (see cities directory).

Data is automatically updated once a week.

Following data is available for each city:

• gender.csv : List of streetnames in CSV (Comma-separated values) format with streetname, gender, and Wikidata item ;
• other.csv : List of streetnames in CSV (Comma-separated values) format that are not related to a person (with Wikidata item if available) ;
• relations.geojson + ways.geojson : Streets in GeoJSON format with streetname, gender, Wikidata item and details (when available) ;
• metadata.json
  • Datetime of the last data update
  • Number of streetnames for each source
  • Number of streetnames for each gender:
    • F : cisgender female ;
    • M : cisgender male ;
    • FX : transgender female ;
    • MX : transgender male ;
    • X : intersex ;
    • NB : non-binary ;
    • + : multiple ;
    • ? : unknown ;
    • - : not related to a person ;
• boundary.geojson : Boundary of the city in GeoJSON format (only the streets that are inside this boundary are processed) ;

Replicate the EqualStreetNames project for your city

See our equalstreetnames-template repository: https://github.com/EqualStreetNames/equalstreetnames-template

Install & Run locally

See INSTALL.md