[Talk-GB] COVID road changes

[Robert Skedgell]

On 11/06/2020 23:35, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> Hi,
> It seems that COVID is likely to result in some rapid changes to road
> networks, which OSM will need to capture.
> 
> I saw a tweet today of the area around the Bank of England, and a road
> is now one way with a cycle lane the other way. Obviously I can't
> survey that right now, but Google Maps traffic layer is showing it.
> Really it needs someone to do a survey (unless we can use the City of
> London documentation).
> 
> More generally, I guess we will all need to keep an eye on proposals
> from each council. For example, here is a tweet from last month about
> 50 modal filters (road closures) in just Croydon and Lambeth:
> https://twitter.com/MeristemDesign/status/1260339305261785088 showing
> the scale of the task here.
> 
> Stephen
> 
I'm following a feed from The Gazette for traffic orders in London which
need to be mapped. When MacLondon doesn't get there first, I've either
been adding notes, putting in changes using the proposed: namespace, or
setting a reminder in my calendar for the start date, as appropriate.
The data are released under OGL v3.0 and can sometimes be used for
updates without a survey being essential.

This will show notices for "Cycle tracks, bus lanes & tramways" and
"Road restrictions":
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice?results-page-size=50&numberOfLocationSearches=1&location-distance-1=1&sort-by=latest-date&categorycode=G408040001+G408040004&service=all-notices

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Robert Skedgell (rskedgell)