[Talk-GB] Leicester A&E

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Eventually I finally had time after a meeting in Leicester to go and have a
look at this. It's been on my to-do list (if no-one else caught it) but as
I usually visit Leicester for specific other purposes I've always run
out of time to get over to the LRI.

Even on the ground the whole set-up is quite confusing. The road into the
A&E threads it's way between old buildings, and although two way has a
painted lane for buggies & pushchairs on the E side (hardly appropriate for
A&E access). The new A&E seems to be a single storey building replacing
parts of the Victoria Building and the demolished St Luke's Chapel. There
is a separate service road off Welford Road opposite the Prison for
emergency vehicles with a very substantial set of bays for off-loading
ambulances.

I think I've captured most of this. I used turn restrictions for the turn
out of the multi-storey (right turn only) and for the service road to A&E.
I've used two unconventional access terms: access=staff (for the exit from
the multi-storey) and emergency_vehicle on the restricted roads off Welford
Road. If anyone has any better way for handling these cases do feel free to
fix the data directly.

Most aerial imagery actually shows the new building in various states of
construction: but I would have found it very difficult to interpret without
having seen the place on the ground. Leicester seems to suffer from
relatively poor quality imagery in multiple sources. Additionally many of
the mapped buildings come from not very precise tracing of OS StreetView
and are often a hinderance when trying to improve the accuracy of the
mapping. I really hope that the Environment Agency's new Lidar data become
available soon. It would be a great help in resolving a number of issues
around Leicester.

I didn't have time to locate the Children's A&E, but suspect that this is
accessed from Infirmary Way (there is a loop service road on the N side of
the new A&E building, which I have mapped). It appears on signage near the
new multi-storey but then disappears from later signs. Hospitals are not
the easiest places to map, particularly ones with a long history on a
single site., therefore in practice an additional ground survey is probably
needed: not just to find the Children's A&E, but to add missing service
roads, parking areas, footways, and fix other details which have changed
with the addition of the new building.

Regards,

Jerry

On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 at 06:35, Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net> wrote:

> I had cause to go to Leicester A&E on Saturday. It was renewed in April
> (Google Earth suggests there was a big building project), and the map
> has not been updated, and so it's not clear on OSM where the drop-off
> is, or which is the associated multi-storey. The road I think it is, is
> part not-marked-as-such and part non-existent. There's also a separate
> Children's A&E entrance. Given the nature of these facilities, and the
> terrible Leicester 1-way system, it would be very good to have the map
> be extremely clear on these points!
>
> Can someone local look into the issue, please?
>
> Thanks :-)
>
> Gerv
>
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