England CyclingEngland CyclingData projectData project

What is it?• Detailed cycling data for most

of England• Collected by DfT from 2008-

2011• Open Data, OGL• Processed for OSM

• Transport Direct – adding cycling option

Why was the data collected?

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)

CycleStreetswww.cyclestreets.net

£28k

458,000 journeys planned

6p per journey

UK-wide (but depends on OSM completeness)

Not a positive news story… (2011):

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

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

Improved routing

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

Merging tool – Potlatch 2

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

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

snapshot/projects

Visualisations of progress

http://www.transportparadise.co.uk/dftcyclelanes/

Visualisations on ITO Map

Plugin for iD ?

Martin Lucas-Smith,

www.CycleStreets.netTwitter: @cyclestreets

info@cyclestreets.net

David Earl