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Bike parking at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art?

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  • Started 7 years ago by crowriver
  • Latest reply from rbrtwtmn
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  1. crowriver
    Member

    I'm attending a talk at the Belford Road gallery on Monday evening, and it seems there is bike parking at Modern Two (the one with Paolozzi statue in it, etc.) but I'm not sure about Modern One across the road (the one with the big Charles Jencks landscaping outside).

    Anyone happen to know if there are any bike racks, say in the car park at the rear of the building?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  2. chdot
    Admin

    Mod1 just to right of main entrance (front).

    Exactly where it should be for Mod2.

    Must be on CycleStreets.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  3. chdot
    Admin

    Sheffield racks

    https://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/to/55.95115,-3.22758/GMA/

    Also blue square to left of building.

    Haven't looked/noticed for ages, used to be old fashioned sort. May have been updated.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  4. rbrtwtmn
    Member

    Same thing as on Cyclestreets, but straight from the Openstreetmap data with a pretty label.
    http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/qht
    Click points for capacity (where recorded).

    Posted 7 years ago #
  5. chdot
    Admin

    "Click points for capacity (where recorded)."

    Shame this isn't standard on OSM too.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  6. Frenchy
    Member

    Shame this isn't standard on OSM too.

    It probably wouldn't be much fun if a popup appeared every time you clicked on the map.

    In case anyone doesn't already know, you can click the wee question mark on the right, then click near the thing you want more information about. Click it again in the list on the left, and more info (including capacity of bike parking, for example) appears. Bit more faff than ideal, but it works.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  7. chdot
    Admin

    Racks at front

    https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9511707,-3.2276727,3a,49.3y,291.22h,80.78t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCAoSLEFGMVFpcE9rMlJzdFNpNjNGRzludllJTkxoUGZQYjJreUl4ampQS2stMjRP!2e0

    Posted 7 years ago #
  8. chdot
    Admin

    "It probably wouldn't be much fun if a popup appeared every time you clicked on the map."

    Wouldn't need to be a popup. I thought CS used to have the number (or was it some OSM layers?)

    Posted 7 years ago #
  9. Frenchy
    Member

    Ah, yeah, with you now.

    The cycling layer shows the number, but only if there are more than 20.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  10. chdot
    Admin

    "The cycling layer shows the number, but only if there are more than 20."

    Ah

    Ta

    Posted 7 years ago #
  11. rbrtwtmn
    Member

    Nothing to stop one setting up the Overpass Turbo site to show capacity instead of course... it's all in the query at the left of the page: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/qhT

    Posted 7 years ago #
  12. crowriver
    Member

    Thanks folks!

    Posted 7 years ago #
  13. crowriver
    Member

    Well the bike parking facilities were very good, conveniently located, plentiful. Would be better with covered stands of course but you can't have everything.

    If only the lower part of Belford Road wasn't such a tricky road to cycle on: too much traffic , narrow, blind bends, guardrails everywhere. On the other hand the wee bike cut throughs to the upper part were a boon. Also as it's blocked to general traffic at Dean bridge end it's very pleasant. I'd forgotten about those cut throughs: they really help and I recall what it was like before they closed that part, not so nice.. Quite a few similar features in west end, e.g., western part of Queen Street. WE could do with more blocking of side streets with cycle cut throughs, such a simple intervention.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  14. rbrtwtmn
    Member

    We should add 'covered=no' information to Openstreetmap for whichever parking you know isn't covered. Tells the next person more than we knew from the map for you. Let me know which you used, edit the map data yourself, or put a note on the map in this place to say what needs to be recorded:
    https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes#Adding_notes

    Posted 7 years ago #

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