Weaving Urban Data is a participatory research effort focused on increasing the accessibility of pedestrian-oriented towns by integrating crucial urban data into digital way-finding platforms where they are lacking. This includes basic information such as street typology, traffic restrictions, street names and house numbers. The absence of this information disadvantages these towns by hindering the performance of most contemporary services that depend on geo-location in the area, from package delivery to keyless home rentals. It also increases the nuisances that travelers using way-finding platforms create for residents, for instance, within neighborhoods that may be closed off to vehicular traffic.

This challenge also seeks to creatively imagine further data-driven approaches through which to enhance the livability of these towns, opening up avenues for successive activity in the area. Weaving Urban Data is part of a series of challenges such as Digital Paths and Encouraging Reuse that are aimed at collecting data about the urban fabric of small towns, increasing their accessibility, and reprogramming unused real estate heritage. This challenge seeks to understand how more accurate data can address the livability standards of younger generations in small towns by performing a narrow and calculated experiment.