-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fairhurst wrote: | David Earl wrote: | |>> In the UK, road numbers are unique (apart from about three cases |>> where local councils have cocked up, e.g. the B4027) and no |>> road can |>> have more than one ref. |> Not true - the A11 and A14 share about 10 miles of dual carriageway |> around the north of Newmarket, for example. | | It's absolutely true. That bit's the A14. This Highways Agency | document, for example, refers to the stretch of road in question as | solely the A14: | | http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/15200.aspx | | The fact that traffic "following the A11" needs to use it is pretty | much immaterial - traffic following the A34 from Winchester to | Manchester, for example, has to use the M40 from Bicester to the M42, | and no-one's suggesting that the M40 is also the A34 (if it is, I can | cycle on it ;) ). No, it's the A14 leading to the A11, and will | almost certainly be signposted as such - "A14 (A11)", or on more | recent signs, on separate lines like this:
If that is the case, then the relationship is essential to convey the route of the A11 information. If the road just has 2 numbers, then it isn't - just a semi-colon in the ref would do. Robert (Jamie) Munro (who thinks that relationships are so brilliant that long term we shouldn't tag ways at all - only relationships) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH+WFIz+aYVHdncI0RAqmSAJ93U5F7F5K0lcnrfXKdDWzhNmdjqQCg92v2 h4SW72Wx7EwsBdLtbufpd30= =lzzc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
