User:Gurglypipe/North West
Ongoing projects in the North West of England
Get Cumbria council to release datasets
It would be good to put in some FOI requests to get more open data from the council. For example:
- Road lighting and tree data
- Defibrillator locations
Robert Whittaker has done this for PRoW data.
Climbing crags
Many of the popular trad and sport climbing crags are not well marked in OSM. It would be good to mark them better, including the crag outlines, nearby tree cover and land cover, and the access routes to the crags. Possibly also some kind of reference so UKC can cross reference to them.
See https://www.xctrails.org/map/map.html?trail=6609581&type=allferrata.
Contributions from local events
To get more people involved in OSM editing in the area, it might be possible to try and get event organisers to use and improve the maps for the areas around their events. For example, for fell races or orienteering events, or anything which requires driving to and parking at. Not sure how best to get hold of event organisers to promote this idea though.
Edits for this task will be tagged #CumbriaRoads.
The Lake District is a popular tourist destination. It would be good to ensure that all the A-roads and major tourist routes to, in and around the Lake District have been surveyed in detail, so that driving navigation on them works well. This includes:
- Give way signs, so that nav software doesn’t generate unnecessary lane forks
- Width restrictions, including single track roads or roads with passing places
- Road surface, so people can avoid unpaved tracks
- Parking areas for popular fells
- Speed limits
- Road lighting
- Pavements
- On-road cycle lanes (see also cycle route mapping)
- Destination tagging
- Road lanes and turn lanes
- Passing places
- Incline (for example, on mountain passes)
- Obvious zoning near the road (residential, farmyard, woods, heath)
- Any obvious side roads, including driveways but not including tracks
- Any obvious right-of-way crossings
- Road alignment to satellite imagery
It would probably also be sensible to work through keepright for the A-roads. I realise that various of these A-roads probably won’t be used by tourists, but generally surveying them in detail is not a bad thing to do.
See also: United Kingdom A and B roads#Cumbria.
The road data for the progress table below comes from Cumbria council for the A roads. The split of the Lake District into major valleys comes from Wikipedia. The passes are the ‘road’ passes from Wikipedia.
| Road ref | Status | From/To | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| A5074 | Complete | A590 at Levens, north to A591 at Windermere | |
| A5075 | Complete | A591 to A593 South of Ambleside | |
| A5084 | Unstarted | A593 at Torver to A5092 via Blawith | |
| A5086 | Unstarted | A595T at Egremont to Cockermouth via Frizington | |
| A5087 | Unstarted | A590T at Ulverston to Barrow-in-Furness via Bardsea, Aldingham and Roosecote | |
| A5091 | Complete | A66T at Troutbeck to A592 Ullswater via Matterdale End | |
| A5092 | Unstarted | A595 at Grizebeck to A590T at Greenodd via Gawthwaite | |
| A5093 | Unstarted | A595 Loop via Millom & Kirksanton | |
| A5094 | Unstarted | A595T Loop via Whitehaven Town Centre | |
| A5271 | Unstarted | A66T Crosthwaite Roundabout, to A591 via Keswick Town Centre | |
| A5284 | Complete | A591 at Plumgarths Roundabout to A6 in Kendal | |
| A590 | Unstarted | M6 J36, Crooklands to Biggar Bank Road, Walney Island | |
| A591 | In progress | A590 at Sedgwick, north to A66 at Keswick; A66 at Keswick, north to Bothel village | Done from south terminus up to Rydal Road/Smithy Brow mini-roundabout in Ambleside (one-way system is done) |
| A592 | In progress | A590 at Newby Bridge, north to A66 at Rheged; A66 at M6 J40, north to Penrith town centre | Done from B5285 Bowness to Brothers Water at Horseman Bridge (including Kirkstone Pass) |
| A593 | Unstarted | Ambleside to Broughton in Furness via Coniston | |
| A594 | Unstarted | A595 at Papcastle to Maryport | |
| A595 | In progress | Carlisle to A66T at Cockermouth; Calder Bridge to A590T at Dalton-in-Furness via Bootle & Grizebeck | Done from A5092 Grizebeck to Cross Beck culvert south of Soutergate |
| A596 | Unstarted | Thursby Roundabout to A595T at Lillyhall via Aspatria, Maryport & Workington | |
| A597 | Unstarted | A596 at Northside, Workington to A595T at Distington | |
| A6 | Unstarted | Carlisle to Lancashire Border via Penrith, Kendal & Milnthorpe | |
| A6070 | Unstarted | A65 East of M6 J36 to County Boundary via Burton-in-Kendal | |
| A6071 | Unstarted | Brampton to Gretna via Longtown (A7) | |
| A65 | Complete | Burrow Road junction, east of Kirkby Lonsdale to Longpool, Kendal | |
| A683 | In progress | A65 Kirkby Lonsdale to A685 South of Kirkby Stephen via Sedbergh | Done from A685 to A684/A683 junction |
| A684 | In progress | Longpool, Kendal to junction with B6259, east of Garsdale | Done from M6 junction to Kendal |
| A685 | Unstarted | Kendal to A66T at Brough via Tebay & Kirkby Stephen | |
| A686 | Unstarted | Penrith to County Boundary North East of Alston via Langwathby | |
| A689 | Unstarted | A595 Carlisle to County Boundary South East of Nenthead via CNDR Hallbankgate & Alston | |
| A69 | Unstarted | Carlisle to Carlisle City Boundary at M6 J43 Roundabout | |
| A7 | Unstarted | Carlisle to Scottish Border via Longtown | |
| Dunnerdale roads | Unstarted | ||
| Eskdale roads | Unstarted | ||
| Wasdale roads | Unstarted | ||
| Ennerdale roads | Unstarted | ||
| Lorton Vale roads | Unstarted | ||
| Buttermere valley roads | Unstarted | ||
| Derwent valley roads | Unstarted | ||
| Borrowdale valley roads | Unstarted | ||
| Ullswater valley roads | Unstarted | ||
| Haweswater valley roads | Unstarted | ||
| Longsleddale roads | Unstarted | ||
| Kentmere roads | Unstarted | ||
| Windermere roads, including Langdales | Unstarted | ||
| Kirkstone Pass | Complete | A592 from Troutbeck to Brothers Water (Horseman Bridge) | |
| Hardknott Pass | Unstarted | Cockley Beck to Dalegarth | |
| Side Gates road | Complete | A593 junction to B5343 | |
| Wrynose Pass | In progress | A593 junction to Cockley Beck | Done from A593 junction to Wrynose/Side Gates junction |
| Newlands Hause | Complete | B5292 at Braithwaite to B5289 at Buttermere | |
| Whinlatter Pass | Complete | B5292 at Braithwaite to B5292 at High Lorton | |
| Honister Pass | Unstarted |
Public transport mapping
Similarly, ensuring that public transport connections in the Lake District have been surveyed in detail would be useful to visitors. This includes bus routes and rail connections. Probably doesn’t need to include the Lakes line around the coast.
See Cumbria bus timetables, Stagecoach’s maps and the UK quarterly project.
Cycle route mapping
National Cycle Route coverage in the Lake District seems to be complete, but more detail could be added on the cycling infrastructure: where are there separate lanes, where are roads narrow, what surface is on the cycle paths, etc.
Electric car charging points
In order to improve accessibility of the Lakes to electric cars, the electric car charging points around the area should be mapped.
Hydro schemes
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/energy
Mapping in specific areas
Kendal
- Fix NAPTAN imports for bus stops around Kendal (they are outdated, and many of them have not been tagged properly as bus stops); add bus routes
- Date proposed: 2017-07-03
- Date started: 2017-12-23
- Map the new residential areas (4 of them) around Kendal
- Date proposed: 2017-07-03
- Date started: 2017-07-03