[Talk-scotland] Edinburgh 20mph Limits

[Chris Fleming]

I've now setup a task for zone 2 convering the Northern half of the zone. I
ended up with some larger chunks, but decided better to get it out.

http://tasks.openstreetmapscotland.org/project/5

Cheers
Chris

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 at 23:41 Donald Noble <drnoble at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot Chris,
>
> I like the way you've split the tasks, looks pretty sensible to me. I
> agree that people can just comment they are going to survey an area or 2 or
> part as appropriate, then come back and work on it later.
>
> Main issue is this just covers area 3 (although there is a chunk south of
> Cluny gardens missing). There's also another area of similar side covering
> north Edinburgh. Is it possible to add these too?
>
> Cheers, Donald
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 at 22:23, <me at chrisfleming.org> wrote:
>
>
> Cool I've divided all of zone 3 into small chunks, generally following
> natural boundaries.
>
> This is at: http://tasks.openstreetmapscotland.org/project/4
>
> One thing I've noted is that the tasker isn't really designed around
> choose an area, go out survey and then map it, as the timeouts for
> locking an area is quite short (2 hours maybe). Also it's only possible
> to lock a single area.
>
> But it is possible to add a comment so that probably is enough to work
> out who is planning on or working on an area.
>
> Also suggest that once we get this up and running we publicise it on the
> cycle forum, lots of 20mph chat and quite a few people have been mapping
> cycle parking.
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
>
> On 02/03/17 at 07:14pm, Donald wrote:
> >    Thanks for the comments.
> >    Having had a look at a few more roads in Morningside on a detoured
> route
> >    back from uni tonight, I tend to agree with needing to survey this.
> There
> >    are some differences with the online GIS, e.g. west end of Cluny
> Gardens,
> >    and there is no signage on Merchiston Bank Avenue which joins onto a
> 30mph
> >    road, despite it being shown blue. I would be surprised if anyone
> could do
> >    30 on this dead end street though!
> >    With that in mind, it would be nice if you could set up the task
> Chris, so
> >    that we can co-ordinate efforts. As Robert says, this is more daunting
> >    than the previous one! I have logged in to the task manager, but not
> done
> >    anything yet.
> >    As for copyright, I don't think there should be any issues with using
> the
> >    council map as a list of streets to check. It might be possible to get
> >    this from the council, or scrape the TROs, but that will delay things
> a
> >    lot.
> >    Cheers, Donald
> >    On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 at 14:37 <[1]me at chrisfleming.org> wrote:
> >
> >      I think I would tend to agree with Robert, ideally we would seek
> >      permission to use the street list from the council. But there is
> merit
> >      in surveying, to get thing exactly right.
> >
> >      I have my tasking manager up and running again, and have been
> having a
> >      play with polygon based task shaping, have a loom here:
> >
> >      [2]http://tasks.openstreetmapscotland.org/project/2
> >
> >      Basically, I created an .osm file. Then used [3]http://geojson.io/
> to
> >      turn
> >      it into a geojson file. Every polygone in that file in turn becomes
> a
> >      task. So we can divide the zone into logical zones that people can
> >      claim, survey and update.
> >
> >      That way we won't duplicate effort and can ensure we cover the
> complete
> >      zones.
> >
> >      If we can agree that this is a good idea, then login to the task
> >      manager, I will bump up your privilidges to create a new project.
> And or
> >      I can
> >      share my .osm file to finish divding up and create the task.
> >
> >      Thoughts?
> >
> >      Cheers
> >      Chris
> >
> >      On 01/03/17 at 10:25pm, Robert Weetman wrote:
> >      >    My thoughts would be...
> >      >
> >      >    a) you could argue that you are only taking the speed limit
> >      information
> >      >    from the mapping, which probably wouldn't be seen as copyright
> >      (coming
> >      >    from the council not the Ordnance Survey). I doubt that anyone
> in
> >      the
> >      >    council has considered making this open data... busy people
> etc.
> >      >
> >      >    b) BUT I suspect that there may be variation on the ground in
> terms
> >      of
> >      >    where speed limits actually change - that there may be some
> >      considerable
> >      >    variation between what was planned at a high level (and is
> >      therefore shown
> >      >    on the mapping) and exactly what will have been installed.
> >      >
> >      >    With b in mind I'd tend to want to do a survey based on the
> >      mapping... but
> >      >    I must admit to being more daunted than for Edinburgh's city
> centre
> >      20mph
> >      >    zone. Could someone draw a polygon (saved in appropriate
> format -
> >      e.g.
> >      >    kml) to define where the edges of the zones should be? That
> would
> >      make it
> >      >    a more realistic prospect to survey. The city centre survey
> became
> >      complex
> >      >    where there were existing 20mph zones - one zone merging into
> >      another. I'd
> >      >    guess the potential for the same this time is greater.
> >      >
> >      >    Robert
> >      >
> >
> > References
> >
> >    Visible links
> >    1. mailto:me at chrisfleming.org
> >    2. http://tasks.openstreetmapscotland.org/project/2
> >    3. http://geojson.io/
>
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