[Talk-GB] Electric kick scooters- Was: External data on bike rental locations

[David Groom]

Just wondering how people are adding locations for electric kick scooter 
rental.  There are a number of pages on the wiki, some in "proposal 
stage", and others which just seem to have been added ( see 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ElectricScooters#Ambiguous_current_situation_with_.27Scooters.27 
  for some examples) with no final consensus.

I'm aware of the 607 nodes added by CJ Malone for the Beryl bike scheme 
( Isle of Wight area added in 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/103830110  but the nodes have no 
tag to show that these are electric kick scooters.

It would seem beneficial to add some information to these nodes to show 
they were for hire of electric kick scooters, and it would seem sensible 
to have a consensus of how these should be mapped in the UK.  If at a 
later stage the worldwide OSM community does standardise on how they 
should be tagged then anything we do now should at least enable us to 
quickly identify which nodes in the UK would need amending to bring into 
line with intentional mapping practice.

David

------ Original Message ------
From: "Cj Malone" <me-osm-talk-gb at keepawayfromfire.co.uk>
To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
Sent: 21/04/2021 14:22:00
Subject: [Talk-GB] External data on bike rental locations

>Hello everyone,
>
>I have just been given some data from beryl.cc for including in OSM.
>They operate a bike rental scheme in a few locations around the
>county. (BCP, Hereford, Isle of Wight, Norwich and Watford)
>
>The data provided includes "Beryl Bays" that are places that you
>collect a bike, or leave it. And "Service Areas" which are the areas
>you can travel on the bikes.
>
>How would everyone feel about me adding them?
>
>I feel the rental locations clearly belong in OSM.
>The service areas may be more questionable, but I think it's valuable
>data. Looking at the wiki they are quite close to
>public_transport=pay_scale_area, although it doesn't have much usage.
>
>What are everyones opinions?
>
>Cj
>OSM UK
>
>
>
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