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Best regards
Spike
On 30/12/2018 12:26, SK53 wrote:
Eventually I finally had time after a meeting in Leicester to go and
have a look at this. It's been on my to-do list (if no-one else caught
it) but as I usually visit Leicester for specific other purposes I've
always run out of time to get over to the LRI.
Even on the ground the whole set-up is quite confusing. The road into
the A&E threads it's way between old buildings, and although two way
has a painted lane for buggies & pushchairs on the E side (hardly
appropriate for A&E access). The new A&E seems to be a single storey
building replacing parts of the Victoria Building and the demolished
St Luke's Chapel. There is a separate service road off Welford Road
opposite the Prison for emergency vehicles with a very substantial set
of bays for off-loading ambulances.
I think I've captured most of this. I used turn restrictions for the
turn out of the multi-storey (right turn only) and for the service
road to A&E. I've used two unconventional access terms: access=staff
(for the exit from the multi-storey) and emergency_vehicle on the
restricted roads off Welford Road. If anyone has any better way for
handling these cases do feel free to fix the data directly.
Most aerial imagery actually shows the new building in various states
of construction: but I would have found it very difficult to interpret
without having seen the place on the ground. Leicester seems to suffer
from relatively poor quality imagery in multiple sources. Additionally
many of the mapped buildings come from not very precise tracing of OS
StreetView and are often a hinderance when trying to improve the
accuracy of the mapping. I really hope that the Environment Agency's
new Lidar data become available soon. It would be a great help in
resolving a number of issues around Leicester.
I didn't have time to locate the Children's A&E, but suspect that this
is accessed from Infirmary Way (there is a loop service road on the N
side of the new A&E building, which I have mapped). It appears on
signage near the new multi-storey but then disappears from later
signs. Hospitals are not the easiest places to map, particularly ones
with a long history on a single site., therefore in practice an
additional ground survey is probably needed: not just to find the
Children's A&E, but to add missing service roads, parking areas,
footways, and fix other details which have changed with the addition
of the new building.
Regards,
Jerry
On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 at 06:35, Gervase Markham <gerv-gm...@gerv.net
<mailto:gerv-gm...@gerv.net>> wrote:
I had cause to go to Leicester A&E on Saturday. It was renewed in
April
(Google Earth suggests there was a big building project), and the map
has not been updated, and so it's not clear on OSM where the drop-off
is, or which is the associated multi-storey. The road I think it
is, is
part not-marked-as-such and part non-existent. There's also a separate
Children's A&E entrance. Given the nature of these facilities, and the
terrible Leicester 1-way system, it would be very good to have the map
be extremely clear on these points!
Can someone local look into the issue, please?
Thanks :-)
Gerv
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