User:Kevin Steinhardt

For an archive of previous survey notes, see User:Kevin Steinhardt/Archive.

I'm Kevin Steinhardt and I operate on the map proper under the username Kevin Steinhardt. I'm in concern with a number of projects and pseudo-projects including the mapping of bus routes in Cambridgeshire and northeast Hertfordshire, and also with cycle- and walking-related infrastructure in and around the city of Cambridge.^[1]

Contents 1 Infrequent tags 2 Things to map, etc. 2.1 Fowlmere 2.1.1 Fowlmere Nature Reserve 2.2 Thriplow 2.3 Foxton 2.4 Shepreth 2.5 Newton 2.6 Barrington 2.7 Harston 2.8 Melbourn and Meldreth 2.9 Cambridge 2.9.1 Pedestrian/cycle crossings 2.9.2 Cycle parking 2.10 Great Shelford 2.11 Whittlesford 2.12 Elsewhere in Cambridgeshire 2.12.1 Section-worthy 2.13 Elsewhere in the UK 2.14 In the Netherlands 3 Survey notes 4 Other diagrams 5 Footnotes

Infrequent tags

• access=destination, bicycle=yes, foot=yes — please use this to denote 'no motor vehicles except for access' restrictions, rather than something like access=no or access=private. Pedal cycles are no motor vehicles, so bicycle=yes; pedestrians, while traffic, are also not motor vehicles, so (to avoid routing cockups) foot=yes needs to be tagged-in as well.
• bicycle=dismount -- at points or on ways where pedal cycles are required (physically) to dismount. Please do not use this to mark a CYCLISTS DISMOUNT sign, as these signs do not literally mean cyclists should dismount; the Dept. for Transport doesn't allow CYCLISTS REJOIN CARRIAGEWAY^[2] or CYCLISTS GIVE WAY^[3] or anything useful like that.
• bicycle:recumbent=* -- could be used for a bridge that's just a bit too low for normal bicycles (and their riders), but at a point where a recumbent cycle can pass with ease. In the low bridge scenario, use in conjunction with bicycle=dismount; in other scenarios, I don't think it's really relevant to show recumbents as separate vehicles, unless other such cycles (you know: 'uprights') have to dismount or manoeuvre differently.
• description=* -- not exactly infrequent, but I use it in a way that suggests that the information written can (should, and will) be readable by the end user. Examples (taken from my own edits) include:
  • railway=level_crossing, maxheight=5, description=Safe height: 5.0 m -- just clarifying the safe height of the level crossing; description=* values could be read out by speech synth on future satnavs or display a little warning on the screen
  • railway=crossing, […] description=Foot crossing w/ miniature signals -- another crossing but this time a foot crossing, and the description=* clarifies your location. Let's say you've planned a route with some routing service and you print off the results; a line could read "Proceed down the track until a level crossing (a gated foot crossing with miniature signals)", parsed from the description, and the railway=crossing and crossing:gated=yes tags.
  • […] description=Public footpath along platform 1 -- at Foxton station, I believe; this would also help you in a routing situation, as you'd know you were on course
  • barrier=fence, description=No access to A505, except by use of stile -- I put this in purely as clarity assurance, in a similar way to those traffic signs that state things like No access to motorway, etc.
  • […] description=Public footpath + permissive bridleway + access to Mill House -- this was put in simply to show what bits of what kind of something are along the same way; it was tagged as highway=track but it's also a public footpath (foot=designated), a permissive bridleway (horse=permissive and bicycle=permissive) and it also leads to Mill House. Might be useful to know the latter fact if you've routed to Mill House and you want to make sure that this track leads there; it might not be rendered clearly.
  • amenity=bench, description=Four benches, in fact; in a square -- not just one bench, but four benches arranged in a square; might be useful to know one day
• psv:guided=*: my suggestion for access restrictions on guided busways, where the technology is that of kerb-guided buses. Use in conjunction with access=no or psv=no.^[4]
• bicycle:trailer=*: sometimes, legitimate path users are physically excluded from using the way, with those with cycle trailers being commonly something something. Could be used in conjunction with width=*. This tag doesn't refer to the trailer itself; bicycle:withtrailer=* would have been a logical alternative.

Things to map, etc.

This section was last pruned a long, long time ago. Kevin: be a dear and prune this.

Fowlmere

• amenity=benchs around the village: in St Mary's Church grounds, at top of The Butts, near the gate to that field,^[5] etc.
• businesses in the village: Ryecroft Data needs a POI^[6] and the Takdir could do with opening times
• surface of certain roads—Aldous Court and Top Close to name the obvious
• the American War Memorial up at the top of Manor Farm Hill
• how about the track leading to the old manor in the centre of the village?^[7]
• Fowlmere parish-controlled allotments: track needs surveying, and the allotments need a node in the centre of the site
• a survey of Lynch Lane would be nice; it's looking a little too ..straight on the map. I know Lynch Lane and her bends; bends + straightness = huh?

Fowlmere Nature Reserve

• the bridge=* at the western end of Short Cut; that two-or-so-metre wooden bridge when travelling ESE
• the waterway=stream down the side of that highway=track on the western boundary (way  43132397); also tag the gauging station with waterway=gauging_station or w/e
• the waterway=stream between Short Cut bridge and that bridge near the N boundary; is this not the same stream as the NPE-traced one (way  31767482)
• furthermore, isn't way  31767482 the same stream that continues S from Short Cut bridge, through/past the pumping house and under the Nature Trail?
• survey the RSPB office-hut thing accurately; the little shed by the Portaloos, on the northern side of the site.
• repair the River Shep ( 1123712) after importing outlines from OS OpenData.
• check the  Nature Trail relation; does it 'flow' in the right direction?
• the Spring hide (POI and the approach path)—use leisure=bird_hide (survey'd and added, 1–2 Sep 2010)
• the pumping house/whatsit to the south of the reserve -- use waterway=pumping_station (survey'd and added, 1–2 Sep 2010)
• the 'footpath' diverging from node  528058950 (survey'd and added, 1–2 Sep 2010)
• survey the Nature Trail loop, and create a relation for it (relation created 2 Sep 2010; needs checking)

Thriplow

• is the Thriplow-Whittlesford path/track is a bridleway? Is it permissive or private?; is there access-related signage?
• that small rectangular memorial opposite The Green on the High Street or something; W of the village shop
• map The Smithy as a POI -- not sure which tags you would use, but it's worth mapping (perhaps)
• the entrance to the KWS site off Gravel Pit Hill could do with surveying, as could the site roads themselves
• permissive bridleway between  that barn thing and  the footpath between Thriplow and Chrishall needs surveying

Foxton

• double-check that all footpaths within Foxton Wood nature reserve have been surveyed, mapped and rendered
• footpath between phone box at the top at Fowlmere Rd's hill and Town Street, Newton ( has been survey'd only as far the bridge over stream, …owing to severe mud on the footpath)
• permissive bridleway between the above public footpath and Town Street, Newton
• survey the footway between Foxton and Shepreth, alongside the A10—see the Section-worthy section below.
• survey stiles^[8] and bridges along the southern section^[9] of the Fowlmere-Foxton footpath

Shepreth

• map footways within the L-Moor nature reserve
• map footpaths between Frog End and the nature reserve
• survey Tyrell's Hall farm and farmhouse,^[10] as well as the 'Chear'-marked building
• survey the footway between Foxton and Frog End, alongside the A10—see the Section-worthy section below.

Newton

• bench next to northbound bus stop on Cambridge Rd
• 30 mph maxspeed=* through the village

Barrington

• NPE shows a footway/bridleway between the E end of Glebe Road and Harston; does it still exist?—presently  43968591; needs a full survey.
• I've been informed that there's a footpath along the river between that car park on Shepreth Road and Malton Lane, Meldreth
• cycle/walk along the road between Barrington and Haslingfield,^[11] making note of the following points along the way:
  • position of the choker near the C of E school in Barrington; the chicane-type thing, that attempts to slow down traffic entering the village from Haslingfield
  • the transition between the national speed limit (north of Barrington, up the hill) and Barrington's 30 mph speed limit
  • the 'no overtaking' ban which begins at the bottom of the hill, and ends where the hill levels out

Harston

• survey way  44447329 -- it was all random and looped back on itself in the most odd way; does it join up with the bridleway at the top of the image?
• survey the footpath between and Glebe Road, Barrington -- temporarily mapped as way  43968591
• survey the public footpath between the end of the Newton-Harston bridleway/London Road, going 3/4 mi W(ish) to Harston village
• survey the footway between Harston and Foxton, alongside the A10 — see the Section-worthy section below.

Melbourn and Meldreth

• cycle stands at Meldreth railway station^[12]
• survey the footway between Melbourn and Royston, alongside the A10 — see the Section-worthy section below.

Cambridge

• footways need surveying within Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits nature reserve
• does the LCN^[13] run down Chesterton Rd^[14] and Chesterton High Street… to Green End Road and Water Street?
• full survey of maxspeed=*s within the Benson area (between Huntingdon Rd and Histon Road) would be quite nice
• in Romsey: disconnect the residential area from the road network by reassessing Romsey and pulling the 'residential area closed-way' away from roads, if you get what I mean^[15]
• the new Cambridge Manor Care Home: just down from Gurney Way on Gilbert Road
• Orchard Park guided busway: are buses on the busway subject to 'ahead only' restrictions at all junctions between Graham Road^[16] and Histon Road?
• the meaning of those two large LCN signs by the traffic lights at Granchester St/Barton Road
• turn restriction: something like "no right turn from Chesterton Lane up Castle Street^[17] except buses"; survey and add as a relation.
• when the 20 mph zone comes into force across the City Centre,^[18] tag the ways and whatnot with the appropriate maxspeed=* tag (yep; done that)

Pedestrian/cycle crossings

• signal-controlled pedestrian crossing^[19] on Lensfield Rd, east of the Lensfield Rd/Panton Street junction
• toucan (pedestrian and cycle) crossing near the Barton Road/Granchester Road junction^[20]
• pedestrian crossing at the southern end of Grange Road (?)^[21]
• pedestrian crossings on Chesterton Road and Milton Road, via Chesterton High Street -- a signal or two before Elizabeth Way; zebras within Chesterton and on Green End Road out
• toucan and pedestrian crossings down Hills Road
  • between Regent Street and Station Road—quite a few sets [of pedestrian crossings] down here
  • between Station Road and the bridge—I know there's one opposite the The Triangle access road; you know, that shortcut to Station Rd
  • south of the railway bridge—I know there's a couple outside HRSFC, and there's one opposite The Perse
• crossings down Jesus Lane and Maid's Causeway, to the Elizabeth Way roundabout
• crossings along Victoria Avenue
• pedestrian crossings around the Perne Road/Cherry Hinton Road roundabout
• there's a crossing of some variety^[22] on Babraham Road, just north of its junction with Red Cross Lane.
• pedestrian crossings along/across Long Road
  • toucan(?) at N end of  that short cycleway within the Addenbrooke's campus
  • staggered crossing between Long Road Sixth Form College and almost Sedley Taylor Road

Cycle parking

Remember to use amenity=bicycle_parking and capacity=*; covered=* might also be useful

• cycle parking at the Grafton:
  • S end of Napier Street
  • down the middle of Fitzroy Street
  • middle of Burleigh Street
• cycle parking at Trumpington Park & Ride (although wouldn't it be easier to cycle all the way into town?; why cycle to the Park & Ride to get on a bus?)
• cycle parking at the large Tesco on Newmarket Road; just do the stands between the cycleway and Cheddar's Lane
• cycle parking at the guided busway stops stops: (figures from this Cambs CC page; will need checking)
  • Orchard Park East: no parking planned or constructed
  • Orchard Park West: space for 30 bicycles (surveyed and added to map 12th November)
  • Cambridge Regional College: no construction has been visible; no cycle parking planned
  • Science Park: 20 bicycles
  • Histon & Impington: 40 bicycles—I only found twenty stands (see  here); are they in two sets? I surveyed the 'shed' by the Cambridge-bound 'platform'.
  • Trumpington:^[23][24] 30 bicycles
• cycle parking on the ground floor of Parkside Pool(s) / Queen Anne Terrace Car Park
• the remaining unsurveyed stand sets at Cambridge Regional College
• cycle parking at Sainsbury's on the ring road; it all seems to be down the W side of the building, alongside the A1134. Quite a lot of stands too; probably about the same as  Waitrose's provision

Great Shelford

• there's a public footpath, beginning on High Street, opposite the Square & Compass
• zebra crossing on Church Street (the road out to Lt Shelford), S of Woollards Lane
• cycle stands aren't mapped at Shelford station^[25]
• what French village is Great Shelford twinned with? Also: research twinning relations^[26]

Whittlesford

• there's a random zebra crossing in Whittlesford proper;^[27] map it.
• a public footpath is signed^[28] between Whittlesford and Sawston

Elsewhere in Cambridgeshire

• there's a public footpath^[29] heading E from Washpit Lane, Harlton; 100 m (maybe) north of the duck pond
• resurvey the byway^[30] north of Butt Lane; I would think it's also Mere Way, but I didn't see a Mere Way sign. Is it a byway?; is the byway restricted like way  59322640?

Section-worthy

• day-long expedition: survey the cycleway^[31] between the B1368/A10 junction^[32] through Harston village^[33] and out towards Foxton. The 'cycleway' between Trumpington and Harston has been survey'd using Trails,^[34] as has a section^[35]between  (nr.) the southwestern Foxton 'turn' and  (nr.) the Shepreth/Fowlmere/A10 crossroads. The footway/cycleway continues from Fowlmere Road, Shepreth^[36] towards Frog End,^[37] where I think the footway ends—though a footway does exist alongside the old A10 alignment^[38] all the way into Melbourn ... but still: Trumpington to Frog End is still a considerable (by UK standards) traffic-free path, as in I always have to consider whether or not I can afford to repair another puncture before using it.
• day-long expedition: survey the cycleway between Melbourn and Royston. The footway begins where the old A10 alignment turns into a small retail establishment;^[39] there is no footway north of here alongside the A10.^[40] The footway continues southwards towards Royston and ends after crossing the very busy A505.

Elsewhere in the UK

• the 'quantum tunnelling telescope' on Southwold Pier, Southwold—tourism=artwork?
• local cycle network across northeastern Bournemouth; getting this done would be nice
• Houghton-le-Spring: I've taken on the challenge of seeing how far I can get with tracing from StreetView in a town that started out with next to no residential roads mapped. As of early September 2010, the project (née challenge) is coming along nicely; I would hope that, by removing the 'blank canvas effect', people who wouldn't contribute had there been no core network traced, …you can see where I'm going. Hopefully, having a base will encourage people 'who wouldn't have contributed had Houghton been a whitespace with a trunk road or two running through it' to contribute. I may expand this project to cover other areas that haven't been… areas not as well mapped as Cambridge, let's say.
• is there a cycling ban on the Kingsmead Viaduct (A10, nr. Ware)? I'm sure there's some ban: might be pedestrians

In the Netherlands

• bus route 99 between Houwerzijl and whereever the smeg it goes east^[41] to; the service most probably also extends westwards^[42] toward Zoutkamp, perhaps. Relation'd as  1029867.
• paddenstoelen across the country: small wayfinding 'mushrooms' to direct cyclists in rural areas. While they don't form a network (unlike Nederland's cycle node network signage), they are a perfect candidate for an OpenStreetMap project.

Survey notes

Survey notes older than a few months will have been migrated to User:Kevin Steinhardt/Archive.

Date and time	'Raw' note or information	Interpretation of note	Satisfied?
2011-10-27 21:30ish	Cycle parking capacities around Amsterdam CS are: Fietsflat 2500, and West (bewaakt) 1200 + repairs; and Spoorviaduct 500 spaces.	Update capacity=* tags, creating nodes for cycle parking if not already placed.
2011-11-28 18:20	One must not turn left at the northern end of Geldersekade, Amsterdam. Turning right onto Prins Hendrikskade or straight over onto Oosterdokskade is permitted.	Create a turn restriction.
2012-04-15 17:00ish	One may not U-turn from/to Kennermerplein, Haarlem at its junction with Kennermerbrug when travelling westwards.	Create a turn restriction.

Other diagrams

These may or may not be visible to the general Internet user, but are diagrams relating to possible survey routes to take to map new paths, &c.

• Tracks, etc. SE of Newton
• Tracks, bridleways and public footpaths N/NE/E of Foxton
• Harston and the surrounding countryside: things to fix/survey
• Footpaths across fields, west and westsouthwest of Newton

Footnotes

1. ↑ Though I mostly keep to my home village of Fowlmere and the places along my commute into town.
2. ↑ Except in Scotland, I think (but then that's not DfT territory)
3. ↑ Although this picture shows such a sign, it isn't legal except under Department authorisation
4. ↑ We don't want buses without guide-wheels being routed down a busway.
5. ↑ Where the vehicle activated sign is; opposite Seven Elms.
6. ↑ Tag Ryecroft Data with shop=copyshop.
7. ↑ Tagged something such as highway=track, track=driveway, access=private.
8. ↑ I say 'stiles'; there's only one.
9. ↑ Between Shepreth Rd, Fowlmere and  this node.
10. ↑ Farm entrance and farmhouse entrance marked as two independent addr=* nodes.
11. ↑ Up and over Chapel Hill with Trails running
12. ↑ National Rail show a number of stands at the station
13. ↑ LCN = local cycle network; see Cambridge local cycle network for more information.
14. ↑ From the junction with Chesterton Hall Crescent.
15. ↑ I'll reword this task at some point in time, but it's one on my Remember The Milk tasklist so it'll probably get done / may get done before I reword this-here wiki entry whatsitmajig.
16. ↑ The Graham Rd junction has had turn restrictions added to it.
17. ↑ You're travelling west along Chesterton Lane towards the West Cambridge site and Queens Road; I think you can't turn right up (north up) Castle Street.
18. ↑ I think it's now going ahead, and will hopefully be everything within the Inner Ring Road
19. ↑ This crossing is most probably not a toucan.
20. ↑ Grantchester Road, not Grantchester Street—which starts at that Barton Rd/Newnham Rd bend-of-a-junction.
21. ↑ Do I mean that signal-controlled crossing on Barton Road, near the Barton/Grange junction?
22. ↑ I'm unsure if this crossing is a toucan, but it is signal-controlled.
23. ↑ Trumpington, with regards to the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, is on the southern section. The Trumpington Park & Ride site already has cycle parking; whether these stands have been survey'd is a different task.
24. ↑ Does "Trumpington" mean "Trumpington Park & Ride"?; there is already cycle parking at the P&R and, while it would be nice to have more, there is (I think) a proposal for an intermediate stop between Cambridge station and the P&R... to be called simply Trumpington. I might be reading the proposals incorrectly, but I think that is the idea.
25. ↑ National Rail state…blah blah bike stands
26. ↑ Would the relation tags be like type=twinning, twinning=village?
27. ↑ As in the village, not the hamlet by the station.
28. ↑ Signed as distance of 1 mile.
29. ↑ I'm sure I saw a 'public footpath' flag-type sign
30. ↑ That's if it is a byway; the current way calls itself a bridleway
31. ↑ I'm using the term 'cycleway' very lightly, here. It's more a situation of highway=footway, bicycle=yes.
32. ↑ On the northern outskirts of Harston.
33. ↑ Is the way a shared-use path through the village?; I've never seen any "no cycling" signs, but that's the problem in the UK. The shared-use paths just end without warning.
34. ↑ I think I cycled that bit in late 2009, although it might have been earlier.
35. ↑ This section is on the map as ways  55983132,  56208688,  56208689 and  56208687 (circa May 2010)—with the latter being tagged with fixme=Pavement continues towards Foxton station.
36. ↑ At this point, the footway is still running parallel to the A10.
37. ↑ Frog End is a settlement on the A10/Melbourn/Shepreth junction, and (geosocially) part of Shepreth.
38. ↑ Which is now a tertiary road and the main east-side access to Melbourn.
39. ↑ This being around the vicinity of node  21076574.
40. ↑ There's no footway on the Melbourn bypass (presumably because the footways were there before Melbourn was bypassed) but a footway does exist where the old A10 rejoins the new A10 on t'other side of Melbourn; this footway continues to Foxton, Harston and up into Trumpington.
41. ↑ In the northeast, the route is last seen stopping at the Gemeentehuis stop, Leens.
42. ↑ In the west, route 99 appears to terminate at the 'Jachthaven' stop (situated near an Arriva bus garage, which might explain things) on Panserweg, Zoutkamp.