[Talk-GB] COVID road changes

Ken Kilfedder spiregrain_osm at ksglp.org.uk
Fri Jun 12 07:32:21 UTC 2020


There will also likely be a spate of permanent renames of roads associated with beneficiaries of the slave trade.   It's all go!

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On Thu, 11 Jun 2020, at 11:35 PM, 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
> 
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