Hi everyone At mappamercia we're collaborating with Birmingham City Council to map their urban traffic control management systems (e.g linking together traffic signals; traffic sensor positions; and lanes being monitored.)
Once we've got the data tagged suitably and we've added the data to a pilot junction system, it will be used to test build a prototype application which will eventually be a platform for public display of live traffic flows and potentially used for asset management. The overall programme is marketed as part of the move towards "Smart Cities" and as an early proof-of-concept for sensor networks that will increasingy be part of the "internet-of things". All of which score highly for buzzword bingo, but more importantly for attracting funding. Naturally we're delighted to be faced with a new challenge and to be working with Birmingham City Council. Locally we've examined the UTC data and systems logic with City Council staff, discussed it amongst local mappers and have produced a tagging schema and partially completed an initial test edit with BCC highway engineers to see if it fits. Once we're happy with the pilot and software proof-of-concept BCC will enter the remainder of the data. We've documented it on the wiki <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia/UTC> and would appreciate any constructive comments, particularly as other councils might want to do similar things in the near future and the schema might need to scale up beyond a local Birmingham initiative. You'll need to invest some time and brain capacity to get to grips with it. We've made it verbose at this early stage on the basis it's easier to omit things later than to add them in to a structure that might not be able to cope. NB mapping this stuff can ONLY be done with access to local authority UTC asset data AND the assistance of a highway engineer(trying to make sense of which cut lines for the induction loops in the tarmac approaching traffic signals are which system, whether they're live and which signal they link to needs one of these experts). Whether other councils will want to engage the local OSM community or just do it on their own remains to be seen Regards Brian
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