[OSM-talk-ie] Kerry Mappers / Cycle mapping

[keith]

Hey,

Thanks for all the help and advice,

Sorry I have been meaning to post/reply before now, but I have been 
reading the messages !

The event went well, considering there was not much osm experience, 
there was a good mix of people, even a couple of kids. Not every one had 
GPS units so we split into groups, and divided up the town.

What I thought was great was that some of the people who came along had 
no idea what the event was about, and I think my description of the 
objectives and intro to osm may have went over some heads, but once they 
had a mission, ie locate all the bike parking in town it was great, 
people came up with obscure locations I had no idea of.

We managed to map [almost] all of the town, some of this has still to be 
uploaded but we have the info and traces.

I just threw up a couple of snaps here, will flesh out a blog post in 
time. There was about ~15 at the start for the mapping and 6 of us 
retired to the pub to upload the data.

http://kerrybicyclefestival.org/news/

The main issue we came up with was regarding bike lanes, even after 
looking at this further I am still not much the wiser.

Maybe someone can advise...

The first issue was that most of the lane did not run the whole length 
of the street, we worked out how to break way thanks to some one irc 
[cheers ! if you are reading this]
In many cases, a lane would appear on one side of the road run for a bit 
then and then another lane would appear on the other side [ie lanes on 
both side ] before returning  to one side again
eg   _____======¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
I presume it is best to split these up ?
But the main issue was with tagging, it is very confusing altogether  
[cycleway:highway highway:path cycleway:bicycle=designated cycleway=lane 
bicycle=designated etc. ] is there an Irish specific guide anywhere ?


I have started to put together a page that pulls the osm data for the 
area and plots the cycle related ways and features on a map, it is 
pretty crude at the moment but will post it when I get round to tidying 
it up a bit .

Cheer again for the help,

Keith










it was a  On 09/29/2012 10:23 PM, moltonel 3x Combo wrote:
> On 18 September 2012 02:02, keith <keith at vool.ie> wrote:
>> The reason I ask is that the Kerry Bicycle Festival are holding a mapping
>> event next Sunday, I have basic knowledge of OSM so it would be great to get
>> some more experienced people involved.
> How did it go ? I see plenty of cycling-related edits by users vool
> and Quaderno, which is great :
> http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/whodidit/?zoom=12&lat=52.63834&lon=-7.23682&layers=BTT
>
> But I was wondering about the social aspects of it. How many surveyors
> did you have ? All geeky types, or also the "common people" ? Did you
> manage to survey all the areas you wanted ?
>
>
> Cheers.
>