Comments below. On 17 June 2012 12:44, Martin - CycleStreets < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > As previously announced [1], we've been working with Andy Allan and the > DfT's contractors to open up the cycling data that the DfT have collected > (via manual surveys on bikes) over recent years. > > This data for each area is now available, converted, and ready for easy > merging in with a new Potlatch2 tool Andy has written. The DfT is very keen > to see the data more widely used, by OSM. > > Neat - a productive way to improve the cyclemap on a wet weekend at home (especially in the local area where much is memorised)! > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/England_Cycling_Data_**project<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/England_Cycling_Data_project> > > It has these attributes, and the CycleStreets router [2] now supports them: > > - Surface quality (surface=) > - Local Cycle Network signage (lcn=) > - Lots of missing paths not yet in OSM > - Cycle lane/path widths (width/est_width=) > - Barriers of various kinds (barrier=) > - Traffic calming (traffic_calming=) > - Lighting (lit=) > > The LCN tags, surface tags, and missing paths, will particularly help the > routing quality, as Shaun/Gregory who see user feedback will attest! > > Now are LCN's which are also NCN's *Supposed* to be tagged? - round here most of the NCN stuff is just inside a relation, where as most of the LCN's are on the way's themselves (The Big Track and NTU City to Basford being the only LCN relations I know of) - I have tended to avoid adding LCN to a way which is also an NCN as it looks ugly on Open Cycle Map (although I guess this is "tagging for the renderer") - should I be adding LCN to ways which are part of NCN Route's 6 or 15 too? > The wiki URL above has a link to each area, and there's a screencast on > Andy's merging tool: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=A_sMxpWptCQ<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sMxpWptCQ> > > I've so far merged in almost half the Cambridge data in under half a day. > We'd love to see a local 'cheerleader' for each area. Could you sign up on > the Wiki for that? > > Would be really handy if there were some tile render overlays (or KMLs/GPXs) showing where is still to be merged - so I can easy pick them up when I'm out and about - the stuff I'm looking at now (Nottingham) is mainly to the south of the city boundaries as that is the area I know best. > Further work we're doing in support of this project is: > > - Any usability improvements in response to feedback on the tool. > > > Speaking of which - when changing the highway from footway or bridleway to cycleway (where it makes OTG sense) it would be neat if you could add "designation=public_xxxway" without having to go into a separate Merkaartor or Potlatch session - ditto editing tags like "lit" and "surface" which you know the DfT has wrong (e.g. a number of off road routes have gained gravel surfaces in the last couple of years round here thanks to the flood defence work). Kev :o)
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