[Talk-GB] Leicester A&E

[Spike]

In case you did not know Jerry,

Gerv passed away in July 2018 >> 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervase_Markham_(programmer)

Best regards
Spike

On 30/12/2018 12:26, SK53 wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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