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This is actually one of the most annoying things I’ve noticed in Brisbane - the lights for walking take absolutely forever. To the point that everyone will j walk because it can take 5 minutes for a light to change; it makes getting around the city so frustrating as a person coming from Northern Europe

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If I were to figure out a localised instance would you collect data? I don't go into the CBD that often is all.

edit: or just do data collection for Brissie directly:

https://betterintersections.jakecoppinger.com/?lat=-27.5&lon...

You don't have to set up another instance - this site works for anywhere in Australia (or the world - but maybe their traffic lights are too different.

Currently I just default the view to Sydney but this could be modified to view where a user is (rough IP geolocation), and I've got a work in progress PR for storing the lat/lon/zoom in the URL so you can bookmark/share locations.

I guess the question I have is what you intend the main interface experience to be for people - the form or the map?

I imagine there's a few trick things that could be done on the map page like nailing the coordinates, doing the timer --- and then bouncing over to Google Forms via the power of pre-filled links.

Definitely would prefer the map (and associated pages/possibly form in future) to the be main interface.

The Google Form makes it very easy to bootstrap collecting emails (reliably) to prevent any spam that may be submitted, but it's long and confusing to new users (already got that feedback).

Ideally in future you could click on an intersection on the map, use a timer in the page (could optimise the UX), associate an email address with a one time code (on first load/if no cookie) then submit (with the OSM node ID already filled in so I don't have to manually update that).

So that would be the long term roadmap - if it gets enough traction and I have time!

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