I've been tagging concrete beams as highway=bus_guideway, single track concrete beams as highway=bus_guideway lanes=1 and sections of *road* as highway=unclassified access=no psv:guided=yes. Both single- and double-track sections I would draw as a single way. I'd just remove the construction=* tag from the northern section between Milton Road and Impington or perhaps Longstanton ... I don't think the busway's moved too far off the original alignment of the railway; I'm not sure about further St Ives-ward. Orchard Park has one-way sections at the Histon Road end but where the 'busway' sections join together east of Iceni Way, I'd tag it as highway=bus_guideway.
On 31 December 2010 12:12, David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote: > On 31/12/2010 11:24, Richard Moss wrote: >> >> So the first question is: do we leave the line of the old railway >> where is is on OSM (traced from NPE around here), and put in a new >> separate line for the guided busway where it deviates > > That seems reasonable to me, as old railways are marked elsewhere. I assume > you think this is a genuine deviation, not an inaccuracy. > >> So: single way, or dual? I'd be comfortable with either. > > I'd go with single. Yes it is two way, but the construction is more like a > single unit. Except if the parts separate, then I'd do it as two ways. > > I also have a vested interest here. I'm producing a map of the area for the > County Council. The less dramatic change there is in the conventions we use > the better - it makes it really hard to chase a moving target. > >> The spur that goes down through Orchard Park, and joins up with >> Histon Road is a slightly different case, because most of it isn't >> guided. It's just buses running on concrete paths. > > I think this could either be highway=bus_guideway, or highway=unclassified > with access=no, psv=yes. It is still somewhat specialized over an ordinary > road, so my preference would be guideway. > > The same applies I think on the Addenbrookes approach on the southern > section IIRC. > > BUT, the section between the station and the back of CUP definitely IS an > ordinary road, albeit restricted access. The guideway proper starts just > beyond the access under construction to the Kaleidescope site (where the > round sign is in this picture: > http://www.camcycle.org.uk/newsletters/93/images/cover.jpg ) > >> And a final question. OSM is all about what's on the ground. What's >> on the ground is a busway, not a construction site. There is a >> dispute about whether it's fit for purpose, which will probably >> rumble on for years, so at what point do we change it from >> construction site to busway? > > I see someone has already removed the construction status from the southern > section! Jumping the gun rather. > > But I think the logjam will be broken soon. The position is this: the > southern section will be "completed" by contractors on Jan 17. At that point > they have one month to fix notified defects. The county is expecting them to > refuse. After that contractually the County can take over the busway and fix > the defects themselves. They have already lined up a contractor to do this, > and will start in mid February (including surfacing the cycleway, which was > always intended to be done separately). They then expect the busway to open > probably in April. > > The legal dispute will be resolved in the courts over years, but it won't > stop the busway operating. The contractors can't block things contractually > once the southern section completion is reached. > > So short answer: April. > > The southern section will continue to change for years to come as Clay Farm > is constructed around it - new links will be created and new roads appear > crossing it. Actually that's true of Northstowe as well, but that seems very > stalled at present. > > BTW: are there any bike racks now at the Fen Drayton Lakes nature reserve > stop? > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-gb-midanglia mailing list > Talk-gb-midanglia@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-midanglia > _______________________________________________ Talk-gb-midanglia mailing list Talk-gb-midanglia@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-midanglia
