City slow ways
I've been musing about a slow way style for navigating a city.. somehow identifying nodes (suburban centres? schools ? shops ?) and running a similar network.
In fact I already started playing with this for cycle routing just to see how it might work out.
Question - What was the method / algorithm used for building the master map ?... I understood from the webinar about the main towns & population centres but how did you identify where a lesser intermediate node might need to go ?
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Hi Ed. I think this is 100% necessary as a future stage in the project.
I think a similar approach can be used to identify places that are mapped for their significance but looking at population too.
Have you done some drawings?
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Hi Daniel,
I got as far as putting a few key points on a map and a couple of trial route triangles.
But I mostly got diverted on trying to come up with a rating for the route's friendliness, combination of how much distance is segregated cycle way, road type & speed limit, which is a heavily manual process but kind of interesting!
I did have a look at local ward maps for the city earlier and thought maybe a central point of each would be a decent but fairly coarse starting point.
(Sadly I had to start work again today so time has become more limited again !)
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Which city have you been looking at Ed? Is it Birmingham?
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Ha no that would be scary big.
I'm in Coventry so that's easy for me to consider, bouncing ideas off our "Bicycle Mayor" too.
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The Red Kites did numerous routes in Greater London, including central London, which was fascinating and a very different set of challenges and solutions were encountered to the rural routes. So there's already some expertise in solving this issue.
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