abstreet/docs/design/map.md

A/B Street Map Design

link to code

Model

The map model is designed for A/B Street's traffic simulation and player editing, but it likely has other uses.

Objects

• Road
  • Goes between two Intersections
  • Contains children Lanes in two directions
  • Geometry: a PolyLine representing the yellow line separating the directions of travel
    • This is usually the center of the road, except for one-ways or when a road has more lanes in one direction.
  • Metadata from OSM
• Lane
  • Belongs to a parent Road
  • Has a LaneType: Driving, Parking, Sidewalk, Biking, Bus
    • Buses and bikes can usually use Driving lanes, but Biking and Bus lanes are restricted.
  • Geometry: a PolyLine representing the center of the lane
  • Sidewalks know which Building paths are connected and

![Alt text](https://g.gravizo.com/svg? digraph G { Road -> Intersection [label="connects two"]; Road -> Lane [label="contains"]; Lane -> Building [label="link to"]; Lane -> BusStop [label="contains"]; Intersection -> Turn [label="contains"]; Turn -> Lane [label="connects"]; Parcel; BusRoute -> BusStop [label="connects"]; Area; } )

Edits

Coordinate system

Invariants

• min length for lanes, turns
• length for related lanes (sidewalk spot / parking / driving) matching up
• connectivity - from any sidewalk to any other - from any driving lane to any other
  • no lanechanging needed, because of the turns that exist
• no loop lanes (same src and dst endpt)... but what about cul-de-sacs then?
• associated lanes - parking lane or bus stop without driving lane
• all turns renderable by draw_full (making thick polygons can fail)

Limitations

things not represented - shared left turn lanes

Data format

Data sources

The import script is the source of truth.

• http://download.bbbike.org/osm/bbbike/Seattle/Seattle.osm.gz
  • OpenStreetMap extract
• https://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM1/Region_01/N47W122.hgt.zip
  • Elevation data, currently unused in the simulation
• https://metro.kingcounty.gov/GTFS/google_transit_2018_18_08.zip
  • Bus stops and routes
• https://data.seattle.gov/Transportation/Traffic-Signals/nr6x-wnd5
  • Location of traffic signals
• https://github.com/seattleio/seattle-boundaries-data/raw/master/data/neighborhoods.geojson
  • Neighborhood boundaries
• https://gis-kingcounty.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/king-county-parcels--parcel-area/geoservice
  • Parcel boundaries
• http://data-seattlecitygis.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/blockface
  • Blockfaces, used to determine where on-street parking lanes are
• https://data-seattlecitygis.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/residential-building-permits-issued-and-final
  • Number of units per residential building

Conversion process

• raw_data::Map
• HalfMap
• Map

convert_osm: from data sources to raw_data::Map

• load elevation into memory from a .hgt
• get raw OSM ways from a .osm
• split up OSM ways into roads and intersections
• remove completely disconnected roads
• calculate bounds
• use blockface KML to match parking categories to nearest road and side of the road
• add in-bounds parcels
• group parcels based on intersection of their boundary, so an entire contiguous block can be colored the same
• match traffic signals from KML to nearest intersection
• load raw bus routes from GTFS
• extract in-bounds neighborhoods from the GeoJSON

make::half_map: from raw_data::Map to HalfMap

• transform raw intersections to final Intersection struct, and build a map from intersection Pt2D to intersection
• transform raw roads to real roads and, using OSM metadata and player edits, lanes in both directions, with shifted center lines
• mark border intersections based on metadata and number of incoming and outgoing lanes
• create the initial intersection polygons by treating each connected road as a thick PolyLine and finding overlaps between adjacent PolyLines
• trim lane center points back by intersecting with intersection polygons
• create all of the turns between incoming and outgoing lanes at each intersection
• (unstable and disabled as of 12/21/18) destroy roads shorter than 15m by merging intersections and creating longer turns
• recreate each intersection polygon by using the lanes' thick polyline endpoints

Map::create_from_raw: from HalfMap to Map

• assign all turns a numeric index for easy text entry in the UI
• match all bus stops with a sidewalk and adjacent driving/bus lane, and filter bus routes based on stops that were successfully assigned
• initialize stop sign-governed intersections with reasonable defaults for which roads stop and yield
• initialize traffic signal-governed intersections with reasonable defaults for phases
• override intersection defaults with player edits
• create all buildings, matching them to the nearest sidewalk with a front path
• copy over parcels and areas (like parks and bodies of water)
• filter out any bus routes with adjacent stops that fail pathfinding

Conversion tricks

• early roundabout handling
• screenshot diff testing
• stable IDs
• short road trimming
• highway ramp special cases
• intersection polygon calculations
• polyline shifting
• sidewalk corner and crosswalk rendering
• clipping to a boundary polygon