Hi, On Wed, September 15, 2010 11:27 am, Graham Stewart wrote: > > The documentation at > http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2010/04/05/add-point-of-interest/ > suggests that bike shops should always be added as nodes. Is that the > case? > > For example I'd previously added the Evans Cycles at the Metrocentre > (near Newcastle) as a building (closed way). > Tags: building=yes, name=Evans Cycles, shop=bicycle > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.9563944617016&lon=-1.67584697130855&zoom=16&layers=C > > I note that this doesn't seem to show on the Cycle Map renderer.
A node or a closed way should both work. If a closed way does not work, then that bit of software ideally needs to be updated. > > Also, any objections if I post this up the link on a popular cycling > site (SingletrackWorld) we might get a bit of help from them and recruit > some new members at the same time. Feel free to do so. It has already got a mention on the BikeBiz news site: http://www.bikebiz.com/news/32850/Bike-shops-urged-to-check-they-exist Any suggestions for improvement are also welcome. Shaun > > GrahamS > > > > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:56 +0100, "Martin Lucas-Smith - CycleStreets" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> We've brokered a dataset of all 2,500-ish bike shops in the UK from the >> Association of Cycle Traders (many thanks to them!), for the purposes of >> merging this dataset into the OpenStreetMap database. It has >> postcode-level >> accuracy only but that's a massive head-start. >> >> Read more at: >> http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2010/09/10/get-all-uk-bike-shops-in-osm/ >> >> Andy Allan and Shaun McDonald have created a webapp for the specific >> purpose of merging (manually) this data into OSM. >> >> http://shaunmcdonald.dev.openstreetmap.org/bike-shop-locator/ >> >> Effectively it has a map of locations not yet reconciled, i.e. a >> checklist. >> Click on each location, and you'll then have a direct link to the >> relevant >> bit of OSM where the shop can be added/updated/removed using personal >> knowledge. Once that's done, it can be ticked off back in the webapp. >> >> >> Martin, ** CycleStreets - For Cyclists, By Cyclists >> Developer, CycleStreets ** http://www.cyclestreets.net/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
