If there is one thing that this forum likes to found upon it is a map/plan/diagram etc... This one has just been posted online by the Council. http://217.174.251.127/atlas/cecatlas.html. How useful it is remains to be seen.
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Infrastructure
City of Edinburgh Council Atlas
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Posted 13 years ago #
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It has the Sheffield Stands around Marchmont in correct places!
Posted 13 years ago # -
There's a huge amount of good information in there.
I thought there might be more of the 'aspirational' core paths, though.
Interestingly, Transport > Tramlines includes the earlier plans of the Roseburn path to Granton and Route 1 to Newhaven.
Transport > Cycle Routes > Cycle Parking just became my favourite overlay.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I presume it's a 'work in progress'.
Potentially very useful.
Behaves differently on different operating systems.
A lot of info is not clickable and the ref Nos. are "no matches for your query" in SEARCH.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Wondered what you were getting excited about...
Apparently the Legend doesn't work properly in Chrome, so I was missing out on Arellcat's joy!
Robert
Off to fire up IEPosted 13 years ago # -
"Behaves differently on different operating systems."
And browsers. The Legend doesn't seem to work in Chrome which had me wondering how people were looking at bike racks and tram routes.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Somewhat ironically IE7 seems to work fine with the map; most modern web stuff like Gmail doesn't work that well in 7.
I shan't be doing away with my printed-out gugolmap that I made of motorbike parking in Edinburgh, as I'm quite partial to maps that don't need electricity and/or the internet.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Ooh, different basemaps are cool!
The cycle overlay is pretty damned good - Innertube anyone?
Posted 13 years ago # -
Tell you what though, it shows how few cycle lanes and cycle paths there are really in the city...
Posted 13 years ago # -
Council computers are all on IE6 so you're obviously way too advanced. They did give us Firefox so we can use the Lothian Buses site, but it's not kept up to date.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Whilst I'll agree it's cool, it does seem a shame that all Councils providing this are doing it individually. A quick google found Shropshire using the same service, and I presume others are as well. If, say, the funds were spent on designing various views of OpenStreetMap data and ensuring that data was correct, I suspect it would be cheaper and of more use to everyone in the long run.
That being said I couldn't find out where this data comes from, so maybe it is OSM and I'm just being a heartless, grumpy cynic...
Posted 13 years ago # -
"I couldn't find out where this data comes from, so maybe it is OSM"
I assume it's all CEC - apart from the maps of course - though some of the boundary data may be from elsewhere.
"I'm just being a heartless, grumpy cynic..."
Why heartless??
Posted 13 years ago # -
Because I needed another adjective to balance out the sentence...
Just seems a shame there's this wealth of free data out there, but instead each council is spending chunks of budget on drawing up their own maps.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Council computers are all on IE6
Wow, really? For security reasons we're disabling the more insecure encryption methods on our https sites, which will have the side effect of making ancient browsers like IE6 stop working with them. In the council IE6 is not only still in use but the main browser? Incredible :-)
Just looked at the map itself. Interesting. I see there's an "offroad path" going round the south and west of Bristo Square, does that mean it's legal to cycle there? There's absolutely no indication of this out in the real world.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I also note that very little of the Quality Cycle Corridor is marked on this Atlas, at least south of the Meadows.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Still no proper URL in the link in the article.
Posted 12 years ago # -
OpenStreetMap seems to know about more cycle parking than the council: http://www.itoworld.com/map/223#fullscreen&lat=55.94430093494715&lon=-3.2090620924056146&zoom=12
Posted 12 years ago # -
Edinburgh Council Atlas has been mentioned on CCE a few times recently.
Wondering who keeps it up to date? I see that the Meadows to Innocent infra isn't all on there yet.
Posted 8 years ago #
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