There seem to be quite a few GB motorways in OSM with names, and some of
those names don't look very plausible. For example, there's:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/37906957
This is the M4 past Heathrow and apparently it is named the Chiswick to
Langley Special Road. That name seems to
On 18/11/2014 23:06, SomeoneElse wrote:
There's a similar issue a bit further out, the Slough-Maidenhead
By-Pass:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/81517663
http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map?osl_id=18177
Again that sounds like a description; I've never seen that sign on
There is some evidence of these names being used when the roads were built
eg
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1459443
South Wales Motorway (M4): Chiswick to Langley Special Road; contract
for Boston Manor Bridge
But I don't think they are useful now.
On 18 Nov 2014
Most of the names in the South East seem to have been added by two
(prolific) specific mappers. Has anyone asked them about their source
and motivation? It would sound fair to consult them and hear them out.
Having said that, one of the top rules in my mkgmap[1] style is
highway=motorway
When I put the M6Toll in I named it originally Midlands Expressway as that’s
the name it had right through till the DfT/Secretary of State decided it should
be branded M6Toll.
Plenty of similar examples, such as the Preston Bypass which formed an early
part of the M6.
Where these names are no
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