CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Resources

Bike data (CycleStreets project)

(6 posts)

No tags yet.


  1. wangi
    Member

    Latest project from Cyclestreets: http://bikedata.cyclestreets.net/#13/55.9581/-3.1638/opencyclemap

    "Bikedata beta – data for cycle campaigners in one place

    We’ve been working on a new website, Bikedata (working title), providing cycle campaigners around the UK with a ‘one-stop shop’ for data that helps them in their work.

    Today we announce the open beta of the site – ready for you to try out, but we know there are bugs.

    Collision data
    Helping campaigners campaign

    Getting more people cycling means improving the infrastructure on our streets so that everyone, whatever ability or level of confidence, is able to cycle easily and safely.

    To achieve this, cycling campaign groups around the country work daily to make the case for cycling. They look at traffic consultations, propose changes to the highway, scrutinise planning applications, and work with local people and their local council to achieve these improvements.

    Getting changes on the ground involves both a solid factual case for improvements as well as making an emotional case. For instance, reducing speed limits to tame traffic relies on having good access to collision data to demonstrate that there is a problem.

    Thanks to our Outlandish Fellowship and some kind follow-on funding, we’ve been working on Bikedata, which is now ready as a beta site. (Beta means there are some problems we know about still but it’s good enough to start making public.)

    Traffic counts
    Data to make campaigning easier

    The site gives you direct access to UK data for:

    Collisions
    Planning applications
    Traffic counts
    Cycle theft
    Trip length (from CycleStreets journey planner)
    Problems reported by cyclists
    Photos (72,000+ images) for campaigning
    Cycleability ratings of every street and path
    Campaign groups around the UK
    ..."
    https://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2017/06/11/bikedata-beta/

    Posted 6 years ago #
  2. chdot
    Admin

    "We’ve been working on a new website, Bikedata (working title), providing cycle campaigners around the UK with a ‘one-stop shop’ for data that helps them in their work."

    Could be good, just wish https://www.cyclescape.org had be better utilised.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  3. wangi
    Member

    Is it not really cyclescape v2? An evolution of it onto a new framework.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  4. chdot
    Admin

    Don't know, not been in touch/involved.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  5. smsm1
    Member

    This new tool, is a useful way to bring several different data sources together in one place which is useful to cycle campaigners. I see it as an additional tool which is distinctly different to Cyclescape, and to be used by campaigners using Cyclescape or other discussion methods to campaign with concrete data. It's not a case of one or the other, both can be used together.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  6. chdot
    Admin

    cyclestreets/cyclescape behind the scenes -

    https://github.com/cyclestreets/cyclescape/commits/staging

    Posted 6 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.


Video embedded using Easy Video Embed plugin