[Talk-GB] UK Bike Shop dataset obtained: please merge in locations in your area

[Graham Stewart]

The documentation at
http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2010/04/05/add-point-of-interest/
suggests that bike shops should always be added as nodes. Is that the
case?

For example I'd previously added the Evans Cycles at the Metrocentre
(near Newcastle) as a building (closed way).
Tags: building=yes, name=Evans Cycles, shop=bicycle
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.9563944617016&lon=-1.67584697130855&zoom=16&layers=C

I note that this doesn't seem to show on the Cycle Map renderer.

Also, any objections if I post this up the link on a popular cycling
site (SingletrackWorld) we might get a bit of help from them and recruit
some new members at the same time.

GrahamS




On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:56 +0100, "Martin Lucas-Smith - CycleStreets"
<list-osm-talk-gb at cyclestreets.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> We've brokered a dataset of all 2,500-ish bike shops in the UK from the 
> Association of Cycle Traders (many thanks to them!), for the purposes of 
> merging this dataset into the OpenStreetMap database. It has
> postcode-level 
> accuracy only but that's a massive head-start.
> 
> Read more at:
> http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2010/09/10/get-all-uk-bike-shops-in-osm/
> 
> Andy Allan and Shaun McDonald have created a webapp for the specific 
> purpose of merging (manually) this data into OSM.
> 
> http://shaunmcdonald.dev.openstreetmap.org/bike-shop-locator/
> 
> Effectively it has a map of locations not yet reconciled, i.e. a
> checklist. 
> Click on each location, and you'll then have a direct link to the
> relevant 
> bit of OSM where the shop can be added/updated/removed using personal 
> knowledge. Once that's done, it can be ticked off back in the webapp.
> 
> 
> Martin,                     **  CycleStreets - For Cyclists, By Cyclists
> Developer, CycleStreets     **  http://www.cyclestreets.net/
> 
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