Pedestrians in unfamiliar cities have it rough. Walk around with a map out and you look like a tourist. Walk around with Google Maps on your smartphone, and you look like a control freak who can’ t go ten seconds without checking their email. Now the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT), in an effort to promote pedestrianism, wants your help in making the city easier to navigate on foot… and not just for tourists.

The DOT has issued a Request for Proposals to create wayfinding stations throughout parts of Long Island City, Chinatown, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights and Midtown Manhattan. The DOT hopes that the wayfinding stations “ will help pedestrians crack the code for traveling to, from and around the city’ s neighborhoods, business districts, transit stops and landmarks on foot. By providing clear, readable signs, pedestrians will be able to better orient themselves to determine how long it takes to walk to key locations.” If the system proves successful, the stations will be implemented throughout the city. Hopefully, this will cut down on the number of tourists wearing boat shoes with no socks on the steps of the Met who ask you how to get to South Street Seaport and then cut you off with “ I can just walk there, right?”

And for you native New Yorkers scoffing at the idea of maps on every corner, because YOU know the city so well that you can find your way around the West Village after a pitcher of margaritas, it’ s actually your fault this is happening in the first place. The DOT spent the past few months stopping 500 people on the street and asking them if they knew where they were. Over a third of New Yorkers surveyed—not tourists—could not identify which direction was north, and over a fourth of them did not even know what borough they were in, which may be more of a failing on the part of the NYPD’ s Office of Special Narcotics than on the lack of wayfinding stations.

The deadline to respond to the Request for Proposals is July 27, and you can find more information here.

Oh, and if you took a boat to get there, you’ re probably in Staten Island. Just in case someone asks.