I am a novice when it comes to road names. I've probably only done a couple, if that, so apologies if I'm stating anything that is already well known.
A friend was involved in the construction of these bypasses. I understand that the body for this was the Highways Agency and through their build they were known as the ..... bybass. They would say they are still known as such. It could well be argued that these are "official" names. It appears that the Highways Agency has its own gazetteer for road descriptions (TRSG) and these are available on this website. http://www.thensg.org.uk/iansg/welcome.htm Perhaps he has access to this. Unfortunately it seems to be tied up with OS so I doubt it is a resource OSM mappers can/should use. I certainly wouldn't defend his attitude. Dudley Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:01:27 +0100 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] "road names" along the A50 (and elsewhere) Aha, it's Mauls is it... He is indeed very prolific, and adds a lot of missing details across the whole planet. However he never seems to disclose his sources, either in the source tag or in changeset comments. Colin On 2013-02-20 14:18, John Baker wrote: I have had more correspondence from Mauls. He is adamant that he is correct and that I don't know what I am doing (mainly because he has "contributed way more" than me and doing it a lot longer. 104k nodes me vs 140k node Mauls....yeah way more and I started with this (did some minor stuff before) account in 2009 vs Mauls in 2008 ). His attitude is that he will do what he wants. Anyway the exchanges are getting rather nasty now so I may give up communicating with him or might embark on some more troll baiting later..... So maybe someone else (...well anyone else not necessarily user "SomeoneElse") can talk sense to him. John > Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:42:03 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] "road names" along the A50 (and elsewhere) > > Philip Barnes wrote: > > I did briefly discuss this with Andy on IRC and the other issue is > > the insertion of soft-hyphens into the names so Hatton becomes > > Hat-ton. Not sure why, is he trying to make a satnav pronounce > > each syllable? > > Or copied and pasted from a document? > > cheers > Richard > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/road-names-along-the-A50-and-elsewhere-tp5749880p5750045.html > Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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