[Imports] Bicycle parking shapefile

[Toby Murray]

I've been working with a new local mapper on bicycle related things
recently. He talked to someone in the city government and got them to
donate a shapefile for use in OSM. This file contains pretty much
every bicycle rack in the city - 595 objects. Since I am the only one
who has mapped any bicycle racks in this city and the new data is more
complete and more detailed than I have done, I think this import
should largely replace my existing work. I think there are only a
couple of brand new racks that I have mapped that aren't in this
shapefile yet. They actually went kind of overboard and tagged each
and every individual rack, even when there are 10 or 15 of them in a
single big bicycle parking area so I will probably combine some of
them into single nodes in OSM to reduce clutter, while adding up their
capacity values.

This is my first OSM import so I thought I would get some advice. At
first I was having projection problems but someone on IRC helped me
sort that out. Now I am looking at the data and wondering what
attributes I should keep, adapt or throw away when importing into OSM.

The shapefile has the following attributes for every bicycle rack:
- ID
- Capacity
- Style
- Condition
- Owner
- Security
- Locking
- Weather_protected
- Notes

Obviously the capacity attribute maps nicely to the capacity tag in
OSM. And I think weather_protected can be converted to the
covered=yes/no tag mentioned on the amenity=bicycle_parking wiki page.

The other tags I'm not as sure about. Owner can probably map to
access=* because its values indicate if it is owned by the city
(public access) the university (bicycle registration technically
required but not enforced) or "Private" indicating bicycle racks in
apartment complexes intended for residents or at businesses, intended
for customers.

Style contains information about the physical construction of the
rack. Values include: Ring, Wave, J, Post, Hump and a few others. This
will probably never be rendered but seems kind of interesting. Should
I leave it as a "style" tag or "type" or something similar?

Condition is kind of a temporal value that may change from year to
year so I am leaning towards not including that one.

Security seems to indicate whether the rack is secured to the ground
or a structure or is just free standing. Values are "Not Secure"
"Permanent" and "Temporary"

Locking indicates how bicycles can be locked to the rack. "Wheel"
"Frame" and "Both"

Notes is kind of haphazard. Most of the time it contains additional
hints as to the location such as the name of the campus building or
business it is adjacent to. Sometimes it contains more information
about the condition like "needs painting." I could see just leaving
that as a note=* tag.

Suggestions/comments?

Toby