Thanks; I had no idea. He was not familiar to me as a regular mapper. Nor were his other activities known to me (or probably other mappers who are not active in OpenSource). I vaguely knew he was a mapper of long-standing.
We should perhaps consider sending a message to this list when we lose someone from the community, although I note that when David Evans died I only messaged the people on my East Midlands list. Jerry On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 13:11, Spike <spike...@gmail.com> wrote: > In case you did not know Jerry, > > Gerv passed away in July 2018 >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervase_Markham_(programmer) > > 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> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing > listTalk-GB@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > >
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