On 7 Aug 2009, at 08:02, Shaun McDonald wrote: > > On 7 Aug 2009, at 00:06, Mark Williams wrote: > >> Peter Miller wrote: >>> This is the A13 and it in the ncn13 relation which I think is wrong >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/23406798 >>> >>> Any thoughts? Anyone fancy following it up? >>> >> >> Actually no, the NCN13 route _IS_ down the A13! Bizarre but true.. >> >> It skips off for the flyover at Gallows Corner in Romford & maybe >> one or >> two other side jaunts, but basically you're on the A13 from quite >> well >> into London (East Ham or so) until Basildon, there are occasional red >> stickers to prove it & a marked cycle lane on the A13, complete with >> 3-lane dual carriageways & national speed limits. >> >> You get crossing places marked at the slip roads, not usually with >> NCN >> stickers just white paint. >> >> I have seen the occasional cyclist mad enough to use it too! >> >> I'm not absolutely certain of the routing onto the A13 at the >> Basildon >> end, as it just might go down Southend Road Corringham into >> Stanford, at >> least one way, but I think it doesn't. It does cross over the A13 to >> Southend road on a bridge, One Tree Hill, but then could back-track >> to >> 8-Bells roundabout, or do the Southend Road route, the signs peter >> out >> just where they might be useful. >> >> I wondered about this before I tagged it but I double-checked it, >> because it seemed so daft, and the signs, as they say, were there. >> > > I have cycled sections of the NCN13 from about Dagenham Dock into > London. There is a cycle path on the side of the road (often > segregated by a small bump kerb and the path is on both sides of the > 2-4 lanes in each direction) and so in that way it is quite safe. > Not cycled further west though. Where I have the data I have been > trying to get the parallel cycle path added to OSM as whoever added > the ncn 13 to begin with just added it to the trunk road's main > carriage way and even I really wouldn't want to cycle along the A13 > for any great distance! Also the way that you join from side roads > can be a little different in many places.
The information on Sustrans mapping and OSM mapping is wildly different for NCN13. I am of course not proposing that we use Sustrans mapping information as a source, but as a 3rd party check it seems to through up some significant questions about trunk road sections. Regards, Peter > > Unfortunately I don't have any photos to hand of that section. > > Shaun > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
