Brighton and Hove

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Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
latitude: 50.8453, longitude: -0.1306
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Brighton and Hove is a city in East Sussex, England, United Kingdom at latitude 50°50′43.08″ North, longitude 0°07′50.16″ West.

OSM Coverage

This map includes the City of Brighton and Hove and is defined in OSM as  114085

The natural boundaries of this conurbation are the sea to the South, the South Downs to the East (to Falmer Rd, and including Woodingdean), the South Downs to the North (the A27 effectively), and River Adur on the West. The original northern boundary was south of Patcham but was extended after World War I to prevent pollution to the water table from shack dwellings.

An area of the city centre has all the building outlines drawn in. Clearly this can be expanded. There's also rich POI data which has been input during the various waves of mapping parties. This will require some maintenance. See something out-of-date? Edit the map!

Progress / What could I work on?

Postboxes

The excellent 'Posthoc' tool shows where Royal Mail says postboxes are. We are trying to reach 100% in all BN regions

Houses

A 10k scan is one of the scanned old maps that National Library of Scotland have allowed us to use. In iD you can add a custom layer with https://geo.nls.uk/mapdata3/os/britain10knatgrid/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png In JOSM you can add tms:https://geo.nls.uk/mapdata3/os/britain10knatgrid/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png

The map appears to align very well. As with much of the UK, we still live in old houses and add extensions. Flip between this and Bing aerial imagery to look for new extensions and developments. You will need to realign the Bing aerial imagery slightly.

Building heights are very sparsely populated. OSMBuildings provide a view with extruded buildings to show progress https://osmbuildings.org/?lat=50.82069&lon=-0.13626&zoom=17.0&tilt=30

Parks

The City's parks are mapped, but there is always opportunity to add fine detail.

Cycle infrastructure

Btn Bike Share

The Btn Bike Share scheme opened in 2017. Some newer locations may need mapping. Tag with:

amenity=bicycle_rental

network=btnbikeshare

operator=??

capacity=n

name=name given by Btn Bike Share

ref=ref given by Btn Bike Share

fee=yes

Overpass Query

   area[name="Brighton and Hove"][admin_level=6]->.a;
   node(area.a)[amenity=bicycle_rental][network=btnbikeshare];
   out body;


Progress: checked July 2021

Ref Name Location
01Brighton Station South 5071947695
01dUpper Gloucester Road / Surrey Street 5071955472
02Brighton Station North 5200230509
03New England Quarter 5053168942
04London Rd Baker St 5072840926
05North Laine Whitecross Street 8107297381
06Pavilion Buildings 5072852666
07Church St 5072850696
08Old Steine 5072856703
09Brighton Town Hall 5200168388
10Brighton Palace Pier 5072857733
11North St Barclays 5072860851
13Kings Road Odeon 5072861657
14Seafront Grand Hotel 5072866573
15Seafront Metropole 5072864987
16Seafront Peace Statue 5072871233
17Brunswick Place 5072873896
18Palmeira Square 5200230510
19Sussex County Cricket Ground 5072875588
20Hove Station 5072880837
21Hove Town Hall 5072882195
22Preston Park 5056099953 and  6396773467
23London Road Station 8949335446
24 Preston Barracks  8949335445
25UoB Cockcroft 5200230505
26UoS Sports Centre 5200230507
28UoB Falmer 5200230508
29The Level (South) 5072883316
30Edward St 5072886714
31St Georges Rd Eaton Place 5072894965
32Madeira Drive 5072895639
33Royal Sussex County Hospital 5200230513
34UoB Sports Centre Falmer 8949335444
35Brighton Marina 5200230515 and  8925060548
36Seven Dials 5200230516
36Seven Dials Vernon Terrace 5200230517
37Western Road 5072897177
38Lewes Rd South Elm Grove 6792578608
39Lewes Rd Triangle 5072899663
40Mill View Hospital, Nevill Ave 8949335443
41UoB Varley Halls 8949335442
42Rock St 5072900952
43Hove Lawns 5072905397
44George St 5072905573
45UoS York House 7806994290
46St James St 5072913797
47Montague Place 5072912233
48Moulsecoomb Way 5200230506
49Hove Park 5072917953
50The Level North 5072919480
51St Annes Well Gardens 5072922558
52Grand Parade 5200230518
53Ewart St 5072923653
54Harrington Road 7462540891
55Hartington Road 5019938504
57The Droveway Hove : Waitrose 8949335441
58King Alfred 5722098714
59Hove Lagoon 5722106427
60Preston Park North 5722089618
61Eastern Road
62 Preston Street  8949335440
63Connaught Road 7924294637
64LiDL Arundel Road Brighton 8949335439
65Portland Rd : Shelley Rd 7924294639
66Portland Road : School Road 8949335438
67Portland Road / Glebe Villas 8949335437
68Portslade Station 8949335436
69New Church Road : Boundary Road 8949335435
70New Church Road / Pembroke Gardens 7918452854
71Rottingdean Seafront 8949335434
72Tesco New Church Road Hove 8949335432
75 Withdean Rise  8071452989
77 Hove Station North  8949335428
78 Portslade Town Hall  8949335431
81 Wish Road  8626421515
99Workshop 5072928673 - Don't think this is real
 ??Sackville Road / Byron Street 8949335430
 ??Brighton General 8949335426
 ??East Brighton Park 8949335427
?? Saltdean Lido  8949335433
?? Applesham Avenue  8949335429
?? Stanmer Park Lower Lodges  8949335425
?? Stanmer Park Patchway  8949335424

Cycle Routes:

Brighton has a few cycle lanes & tracks, all of which have relations.

Relation Ref Name Description
 1950688 NCN 2 National Cycle Network 2

South Coast Cycle Route

 Runs besides the A259 on a cycle track. Along the main seafront part of the A259 main carriageway has been temporally converted to a cycle lane as a response to COVID-19. This is due to be extended in 21/22 and likely to be rebuilt permanently in 23/24. B&HCC aspiration is NCN2 to be a high quality segregated route across its entire length (in B&HCC).
 11507779 NCN 20 National Cycle Network 20

London - Brighton

 Follows the A23 from the City boundary all the way to the A259 where it meets the NCN 2 on the seafront. North of the A27 it runs as a segregated cycle/foot track next to the A23. South of the A27 and North of the A270 it runs along the A23 on cycle lanes or on the footway although due to be made into a permanent cycle track in 2022. Between the A270 and the seafront it runs mostly on back streets not very well sign posted except a small new section in valley gardens. This section is also due to be improved in 24/25
 21901 NCN 83 Brighton - Devils Dyke Runs from NCN 2 at the seafront to Devils Dyke via Hove. Section between NCN 2 and Old Shoreham Road (A270) uses segregated cycle tracks, north of that it runs on residential streets, north of the urban area it runs on the old Dyke railway to the top of the dyke.
 21904 NCN 90 National Cycle Network 90

Brighton - Lewes - Polegate

 Runs along the A270 between A23 Valley Gardens (NCN 20) & A27 using cycle lanes.

Runs along the A27 between the A270 Lewes

 8376508 Old Shoreham Road (A270) Cycle Lanes A stepped cycle lane runs from Dyke road (A2010) to the Drive. A temp cycle lane also continues to run from The Drive to Hangleton Road (A2038) as a result of COVID-19 measures, this is also planned to be extended to city border in 23/24 or later.
 9302817 Dyke Road Dyke Road has cycle lanes along most of its length, although not of a good quality.
 8376706 Undercliff Walk Running under the cliff beside NCN 2 runs a shared path. This goes between the Marina and Saltdean

Points of Interest

A Prince Regent's palace

The Royal Pavilion built for King George IV of the United Kingdom  338139685

The oldest operating electric railway in the world

The Volks Electric Railway opened in 1883  6168019

A couple of piers. One dead

The Palace Pier  3451897. Local calls it the 'Brighton Pier'. The West Pier  96651243 which opened in 1866

An abandoned railway tunnel

Not many people will know that there used to be a branch line from near London Road Station to Kemptown incorporating a section of tunnel with an entrance still visible behind a storage depot.  117345347

Two Universities

Sussex Uni  37669694 and Brighton Uni  11799547 both with additional sites

Quadrophenia Alley

The alleyway where Phil Daniels and Leslie Ash get 'intimate' in the film Quadrophenia  489251517

Twittens

Twitten is an old Sussex dialect word, used in both East and West Sussex, for small passageways leading between two buildings to courtyards, streets, or open areas behind. Black Lion Lane Camden Terrace Clifton Street Passage Duke's Passage Frederick Gardens Ship Street Gardens

and more..

Events and history

Brighton was involved early on in OSM 2006/7

2017 DataVis Brighton Meetup: The Map is not the Territory: OpenStreetMap workshop w/Jez Nicholson

A 1.5hr talk/workshop at The Skiff for members of the Data Visualisation Brighton Meetup group. Participants heard about how capturing geo data is a good way to understand mapping, and made their first edit.

2017 Btn Bike Share scheme mapping

A mini project to map all the locations of the new bike share scheme .

2012 to 2016

AFAIK no events

2011 Mapping Party

Saturday 19 November 2011 with people such as: Smsm1, Derick,nDan Karran, Alex, Emilie, Jez Nicholson

In response to this tweet and this article on the Guardian blog re Skobbler's navigation app lack POIs in Brighton

Photos on Flickr (tag osmbrightonmappingparty2011)

Cake diagram

2009 Mapping Party

2007 "Launch" Event

Big OpenStreetMap Brighton "launch" event at the Brighthelm Centre, 29 November 2007.

the Invitation
the Press Release

2007 The Year of Mikel Maron

The project to map Brighton was taken up by User:Mikel in 2006/7 as a Brighton resident at the time. This instigated a flurry of activity, enthusiasm and events.

Animated GIF of the initial mapping 2006/7. Mappers started from the Brighton core and extended out in each direction.

2007 Brighton Stubs Map show locations of "known unknowns", mainly footpaths which couldn't be surveyed while driving through Bevendean.

A number of workshops and presentations took place:

2006 Pre-DConstruct Workshop

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