Cycle routing reflecting real cyclists’ desire-lines needs good quality data. Earlier this year the UK's Department for Transport made available cycling data for England collected from surveying they had undertaken over a few years. This has been converted to an OpenStreetMap-compatible format to enable OSM community volunteers to merge in the data. The geometry has been 'snapped' to OSM geometries with intelligent matching of paths, and the metadata has been converted to using the OSM tagging system. We funded the creation of a merging tool which enables mappers to merge the data. Martin will talk about some of the project’s challenges and opportunities involved and will ask what scope there is for future 'manual merging' projects.

1. England CyclingEngland Cycling
Data projectData project

2. What is it?
• Detailed cycling data for most of England
• Collected by DfT from 2008-2011
• Open Data, OGL
• Processed for OSM

3. • Transport Direct – adding cycling option
Why was the data collected?

4. Transport Direct CJP
www.transportdirect.info/Web2/JourneyPlanning/FindCycleInput.aspx
£2.4 million (from tax)
92,000 journeys planned
£26.09 per journey
32 areas (professionally surveyed)
CycleStreets
www.cyclestreets.net
£28k
458,000 journeys planned
6p per journey
UK-wide (but depends on OSM completeness)
Not a positive news story… (2011):

5. Positive outcome…
• Data more available  taxpayer value
• Released on data.gov.uk as GML
• Snapped to OSM geometries
• Attributes converted to OSM tags
• Funded tool development

6. What’s in the data?
• Signed routes (lcn/ncn)
• Traffic calming
• Path width
• Cycle lane widths
• Contraflows
• Surface type
• Lighting
• Crossings
 Improved routing

7. England Cycling Data project
• Help needed – full info on OSM wiki

8. Merging tool – Potlatch 2

9. Screencast on YouTube
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sMxpWptCQ

10. Snapshot server
• http://gravitystorm.dev.openstreetmap.org/cnxc-snapshot/projects

11. Visualisations of progress
http://www.transportparadise.co.uk/dftcyclelanes/

12. Visualisations on ITO Map

13. Plugin for iD ?

14. Martin Lucas-Smith,
www.CycleStreets.net
Twitter: @cyclestreets
info@cyclestreets.net
David Earl