Doc: Highway Lengths - wimlds/smart_cities GitHub Wiki
The road length of each NYC ZIPCODE is calculated using OpenStreetMaps and the OSMnx python package. OSMnx queries OpenStreetMaps to obtain all driving roads within a zipcode geographical boundaries (the areas is passed as a shape read in from a shapefile with geopandas and fiona). The code that generates the dataset is in this notebook
Table path:
`smart_cities_data.RoadLenghtByZIP`
| Column Name | Explanation |
|---|---|
| ZIPCODE | Integer |
| COUNTY | String, county name |
| CTY_FIPS | Integer, Federal Information Processing Standards code |
| POPULATION | Float, City population from DoITT zipcodes shapefile updated 09/28 2014 |
| PO_NAME STRING | String, popular name of the neighborhood |
| streetlength | Float length of all drivable roads (km) |