Determine extent of the challenge

[mikelmaron]

What's the boundary of the challenge? We want to go beyond the city limits to the "metro region". Will be great to include urban, suburban and rural areas. Presumably that could go as far as Ann Arbor on the west, where there is already some mapping activity.

Is there a logical boundary we could use? All the adjacent counties to Wayne county? Or should we draw something which "feels right"?

[mikelmaron]

Maybe this works https://maps.semcog.org/Membership/

[nickballen]

Agreed that the 7-county metro region would be a great goal. Many high-res datasets (building footprints, land use) are provided at this scale because of SEMCOG's service area.

I would also make a case for POI mapping within the 4-county area (Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw). This is the "metro region" from the standpoint of regional coordination. It also may draw contributors from local universities (Wayne State, UMich School of Information, UMich Taubman planning school)