[Talk-GB] Import of Cyclehoop Bike Hangars

[Martin - CycleStreets]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, Steven Hirschorn wrote:

> 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.

Definitely +1 from us on this.


> 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.

I see the main benefit as for campaigners who want more of this kind of 
provision, and thus ultimately for citizens who have bikes or might buy a 
bike if they thus had a reasonable degree of confidence it wouldn't get 
nicked.

Some Boroughs/Councils are really ramping up provision of these. Others, 
like Cambridge where we live, haven't even started (here it takes 2 years 
of dealing with ludicrous NIMBY objections to get even a single parking 
space converted to secure cycle parking, even in areas with very high cycle 
theft levels).

Researchers also could use such data, because cycle parking is one 
indicator of cycle-friendliness of a council, and indeed such data would 
show areas where provision is poor (as per your example). It could also be 
used to verify the effects of theft reduction work against police 
statistics.

Cyclehoop ought to welcome such uses, because frankly it will result in 
more demand for their product!

Mappers should be aiming to get these on the map anyway, irrespective of 
whether Cyclehoop could help shortcut the process to do so more quickly.


Martin,                     **  CycleStreets - For Cyclists, By Cyclists
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