Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database - conflation

2020-04-01 Thread RobJN
Sounds great. I have used Ilya's OSM Conflate tool for point data in the past. That might be a good option and could be adapted to show the TfL photos. Probably best to split by region to keep the task manageable. BTW. the lockdown means more people are looking at ways to give back. There was an

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database - conflation

2020-04-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Lucas-Smith - CycleStreets wrote: > Richard will be doing the bulk of the scripting work, and is working > on converting each of the sections of data. This will naturally be > published on Github openly, as will the outputted data. This is > reasonably complex work given the number of

[Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database - conflation

2020-03-26 Thread Martin Lucas-Smith - CycleStreets
Dear all, As you may recall, Transport for London (TfL) released as open data a major new cycling infrastructure dataset. Various people within the OSM UK community met TfL in the run-up to its release, and it was well-received. The OSM wiki has a project page here:

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database

2019-06-11 Thread Martin Lucas-Smith - CycleStreets
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Tom Hughes wrote: Whether we want it is not really the issue. I believe the issue is the licensing, and until that is resolved what we may or may not want is irrelevant. I have been following up with TfL some of the licensing questions, and am expecting very shortly

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database

2019-06-11 Thread Martin Lucas-Smith - CycleStreets
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Tony Shield wrote: Looking at the demo I can't think of a reason why OSM would not want this data - I believe we do want this data. Questions I have - * Are the tags suitable for a global database? Can and should they be reused elsewhere in UK? or globally? Is there a

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database

2019-06-11 Thread Tom Hughes
Whether we want it is not really the issue. I believe the issue is the licensing, and until that is resolved what we may or may not want is irrelevant. Tom On 11/06/2019 10:11, Tony Shield wrote: Hi Looking at the demo I can't think of a reason why OSM would not want this data - I believe

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database

2019-05-15 Thread Jez Nicholson
If Martin comes to the OSMUK AGM he could do a talk and/or we could host a discussion. Regards, Jez On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:11 PM Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi Martin, Hi all, > > -- Second attempt to send this mail, this time with attachments hosted on > cloud (feel free to copy

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database

2019-05-14 Thread Rob Nickerson
Hi Martin, Hi all, -- Second attempt to send this mail, this time with attachments hosted on cloud (feel free to copy to OSM wiki) Good to see the TfL project moving forward. As background for those that were not aware, Transport for London first approached the OpenStreetMap United Kingdom

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database

2019-05-10 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
This looks very interesting, well worth investigating, but could any comments be posted here please -  We get notifications, they're recorded & date sorted. I've yet to see a wiki discussion that doesn't become incoherent after a dozen posts. . DaveF On 10/05/2019 17:03, Jez Nicholson wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database

2019-05-10 Thread Martin Lucas-Smith - CycleStreets
On Fri, 10 May 2019, Jez Nicholson wrote: Their data is highly accurate, Yes, that seems to me as well to be the case. We're just awaiting more images to be uploaded to the site (every feature has two images, but not all are GDPR-cleared yet). I'd welcome as many eyes as possible on the

Re: [Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database

2019-05-10 Thread Jez Nicholson
Firstly, exceptionally pleased that TfL see OSM as *the* major people access cycling data :D Their data is highly accurate, and there's definitely going to need to be some clever conflation tooling. Bike stands are fine, but advance stop lines, etc. are specialist subjects in my book. I'm sightly

[Talk-GB] TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database

2019-05-10 Thread Martin Lucas-Smith - CycleStreets
Transport for London (TfL) have created a new database of cycling infrastructure, containing 240,000 assets, covering all of Greater London. This groundbreaking database contains every cycle infrastructure asset within Greater London, including assets on and off-carriageway. The assets