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<p class=MsoNormal>I have a question about how OpenCycleMap renders bicycle
parking.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>At this location (central London)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=15&lat=51.51367&lon=-0.08747&layers=B000">http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=15&lat=51.51367&lon=-0.08747&layers=B000</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>At this location (University of South Florida, Tampa)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://www.opencyclemap.org/?lat=28.058419&lon=-82.415946&zoom=18&layers=00B0FTF">http://www.opencyclemap.org/?lat=28.058419&lon=-82.415946&zoom=18&layers=00B0FTF</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Can someone explain the reason for the difference? Is there
something we can do to get the London-style rendering in Tampa?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I’d welcome answers to the question, and suggestions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Ed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=NL-BE style='color:green'>Edward L. Hillsman,
Ph.D.</span></b><b><span lang=NL-BE style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>Senior Research Associate</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>Center for Urban Transportation Research</span><span
style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>University of South Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>4202 Fowler Ave., CUT100<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>Tampa, FL 33620-5375<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>813-974-2977 (tel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>813-974-5168 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'><a href="mailto:polzin@cutr.usf.edu"><span style='color:blue'>hillsman@cutr.usf.edu</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'><a href="blocked::http://www.cutr.usf.edu/"
title="http://www.cutr.usf.edu/"><span style='color:green'>http://www.cutr.usf.edu</span></a></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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