Hi Edward,
You need a capacity of at least 20 before it is shown. The reason for
needing a larger number of spaces before it was rendered with a big C
was due to places like http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=18&lat=51.49685&lon=-0.12529&layers=B000
where it would show lots of blue C's beside each other which wasn't
particularly useful when the cycle parking was mapped in detail.
You'll find that a heat map similar to http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravitystorm/3811329030/
would be of far more use to your project.
Shaun
On 23 Oct 2009, at 13:20, Hillsman, Edward wrote:
I have a question about how OpenCycleMap renders bicycle parking.
At this location (central London)
http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=15&lat=51.51367&lon=-0.08747&layers=B000
bicycle parking is rendered as a white “C” on a blue background,
with the number of spaces (capacity=#) in blue below it. This holds
at the lowest zoom level that shows bicycle parking, and at all
higher zoom levels.
At this location (University of South Florida, Tampa)
http://www.opencyclemap.org/?lat=28.058419&lon=-82.415946&zoom=18&layers=00B0FTF
bicycle parking is rendered as only a small blue square-ish dot.
Again, this holds at the lowest zoom level that shows bicycle
parking, and at all higher zoom levels.
Can someone explain the reason for the difference? Is there
something we can do to get the London-style rendering in Tampa?
Our university’s bicycle club is interested in mapping the bicycle
parking on campus and the surrounding area. As the club’s faculty
advisor I’ve suggested they can do it using OSM. But we really would
like to see the capacity displayed as in the London example. For
reasons related to when various parts of the campus were built,
there appears to be a major imbalance in the availability of cycle
parking between sections of the campus, and the club would like to
use the OpenCycleMap to help document this (the university does not
seem to have data on the number and location of bicycle parking
spaces on campus). I’m hoping that this effort will get more
students involved in OSM generally (and thereby get the campus
mapped more completely). I have the expertise and tools to export
the data from OSM into something that will render the map the club
wants, but I think the students will have greater ownership in the
project if they are able to get that map on their own, without
faculty technical expertise; so far, none of the students active in
the club has indicated having this kind of expertise.
I’d welcome answers to the question, and suggestions.
Ed
Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Center for Urban Transportation Research
University of South Florida
4202 Fowler Ave., CUT100
Tampa, FL 33620-5375
813-974-2977 (tel)
813-974-5168 (fax)
[email protected]
http://www.cutr.usf.edu
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