[Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

[Gregory Williams]

I've seen contraflow cycle lanes on the left and the right side of the road
in the UK, so thought I ought to just clarify the tagging - better to be
explicit rather than ambiguous.

 

From: Shaun McDonald [mailto:shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk] 
Sent: 09 October 2012 17:35
To: Gregory Williams
Cc: 'Richard Mann'; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

 

Gregory,

 

I thought that cycleway=opposite_lane was the equivalent of
cycleway:right=lane.

 

And if it was a lane only on the left then it would be cycleway:left=lane.

 

Shaun

 

On 9 Oct 2012, at 17:28, "Gregory Williams" <gregory at gregorywilliams.me.uk>
wrote:





Richard,

 

It looks good and useful. On the OSM side of things it looks like you've
missed handling cycleway=opposite_lane, since a place where I had that in
the data wasn't being rendered. I have since changed this to be
cycleway:right=opposite_lane though to be more accurate.

 

Cheers,

 

Gregory

 

From: Richard Mann [mailto:richard.mann.westoxford at gmail.com] 
Sent: 09 October 2012 16:15
To: talk-gb OSM List (E-mail)
Subject: [Talk-GB] DfT Cycling data - cycle lanes

 

As you may recall, DfT has made available a lot of cycle facility data. This
was processed and snapped to OSM geometry, and has been available for some
months for importing (subject to local review) using the Snapshot tool.
Further details here:
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/England_Cycling_Data_project>
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/England_Cycling_Data_project

 

I've reconciled the data for my area, but I found it a bit hard going.
Progress in other areas has been variable.

 

I'm particularly interested in cycle lane data, so I've produced a rendering
that compares DfT (Red) with OSM (Blue) data. Note that the DfT data is not
clear which side of the road cycle lanes are on.

 <http://www.transportparadise.co.uk/dftcyclelanes/>
http://www.transportparadise.co.uk/dftcyclelanes/

 

Quite a lot still missing.

 

So I've also generated tiles of the DfT cycle lane data (down to z17), for
use as a background in editors. In Potlatch, you can create a new background
by clicking on the Background drop-down, then Edit, then Add. The URL for
the tiles is:

 <http://www.transportparadise.co.uk/dftcyclelanes/tilesDfT/$z/$x/$y.png>
http://www.transportparadise.co.uk/dftcyclelanes/tilesDfT/$z/$x/$y.png

 

If any of you care to add cycle lanes in your area, that'd be most welcome.
It will also be interesting to see whether providing a background proves to
be an effective way of getting data reviewed and into OSM. If it's
successful, a similar approach can be used for other parts of the data.

 

Feedback welcome.

 

Richard

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