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

[Steven Hirschorn]

I've been using amenity=escooter_rental in the absence of an agreed tag -
internally consistent so that they can be replaced with an agreed
alternative when/if one is agreed upon. taginfo didn't show any clear
front-runners when I last looked.

The escooters, unlike the dockless bikes and ebikes, are expected to be
returned to designated locations, so I think it would be really useful to
see a map of those locations in one place to plan journeys (no point riding
them towards a destination with no approved return locations). I'm aware
though that unapproved tags won't be rendered yet.



On Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 13:14, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-GB mailing list
> Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-GB mailing list
> Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/attachments/20210913/24a4b6de/attachment-0001.htm>