Walk Hack Night II

Walk Hack Night is a show & tell of projects, apps and data visualizations about pedestrians and the walking experience. Doors open at 6:00 with pizza and drinks courtesy of Mobility Lab, and the presentations start at 6:30.

Our presenters (http://mvjantzen.com/meetup/walkhacknight2.html) are:

• Andrew Mondschein (http://www.arch.virginia.edu/faculty/Andrew_Mondschein) will show how UVA (http://www.arch.virginia.edu/) is using wearable sensors to measure dimensions of walkability in Tysons, VA and beyond.

• Amir Farhangi and Matt Triner of District Ninja (http://district.ninja/) will share their District of Pedestrians (http://district.ninja/the-vision-zero-initiative-part-1-district-of-pedestrians/) data visualizations.

• Aaron Ogle will show how he built walkshed.js, measuring pedestrian access using raster analysis in JavaScript.

• Manaswi Saha will update us on Project Sidewalk (https://sidewalk.umiacs.umd.edu/).

• Michael Schade (http://mvjantzen.com/) will show how he used Walkscore's API (https://www.walkscore.com/professional/api.php)to build his Arlington Walkshed (http://mvjantzen.com/mobility/walkshed.html) program.

• Chris Fricke will muse on indoor positioning and walkability.

Follow @techiesdc (https://twitter.com/techiesdc) for "Transportation Techies" updates. Our hashtag is #walkhacknight (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23walkhacknight).

Read about our last Walk Hack Night (https://www.meetup.com/Transportation-Techies/events/224308905/): Walking, the oldest form of transportation, goes high tech (http://mobilitylab.org/2015/08/24/walking-the-oldest-form-of-public-transportation-goes-high-tech/).