[Talk-GB] Import of Cyclehoop Bike Hangars

[Steven Hirschorn]

Hi All,

I've emailed Cyclehoop (who build, install and maintain bike storage
hangars around the country, available to residents via subscription),
to ask if they could provide a dataset that I could conflate and
import into OSM. Obviously I'll go through the formal import process
if they agree to supply the data (I worked the other way round last
time only to find at the last hurdle that there was almost certainly
license taint in another dataset after clearing many other hurdles).
I've explained about the ODBL licensing and the issue of licence taint
if the geo coordinates were obtained via a Google Map.

They've asked some questions about what the community benefit is in
including them in OSM, and I was wondering if anyone has some standard
text they use? In the case of these hangars, I can think of a few
benefits, such as the ability to process the data (which I've been
doing to lobby my councillors for more hangars - "only 20% of homes in
the area live within 100m of a hangar and it is probably at capacity
anyway"), the potential of having a map that can show you where your
nearest hangar is without having to search multiple websites of
different providers to find the nearest one. Plus the fact that OSM
supplies the data that is already used by many cycle routing apps like
OpenCycleMap, CyclOSM and CycleStreets.

Any help appreciated,
Steven