How did the mapper get this info? What licence is it under? FoI for example is copyright and so still needs to be released under a suitable licence. AFAIK local authorities are responsible for naming roads not the DfT.
Cheers Chris John Baker <rovas...@hotmail.com> wrote: >I had a response. > >Apparently these are "official" Department of Transport road names. > >Now I don't know as this differs to what is on the ground what should >be done about this. > >"Foston Hatton Hilton Bypass", etc don't as far I I know appear on >the ground however I think the some record should appear in OSM. I am >worried about the trend in this case of placing them as the "name" of >the road as what reference point would people use for these. > >Any thoughts? > >John >From: rovas...@hotmail.com >To: li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org >Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:48:53 +0000 >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] "road names" along the A50 (and elsewhere) > > > > >The user looks like a troll. None of his/her/bot changesets have any >comments. And they bounce all over the world. > >I think he deleted the original roads on the 21 jan 2013 as the history >in OSM says they are new roads. > >Can someone look at reverting them all. > >I sent the user this PM. > >"What are you doing with your edits here?: > > >http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/14728720 > > >You appear to have deleted major roads A50 and replaced them with >strange names. Where are you getting your information. > > >Your changesets have no notes in them explaining what you have done. > > >Can you explain what you are doing before we revert the changes and >look at getting you banned. > > >Cheers, > > >John" > > > > > >> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:11:53 +0000 >> From: li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk >> To: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> Subject: [Talk-GB] "road names" along the A50 (and elsewhere) >> >> Recently various sections along the A50 between Derby and Stoke have >> grown names, for example here: >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/202232245/history >> >> I've driven along that section of road many times, and I don't >believe >> I've seen a name on any of the new sections. >> >> According to Musical Chairs, there are genuinely no names: >> >> >http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map?zoom=15&lat=52.87983&lon=-1.66551&layers=B0TT&view_mode=pseudorandom >> >> Some similar roads in Derbyshire do have official names, such as the >A52 >> "Brian Clough Way" between Derby and Nottingham, or well-used >unoffical >> ones such as the A61 which locals regularly used to refer to as just >the >> "Dronfield Bypass", but I've never heard of ones for the A50 being >used. >> >> I'm planning to remove names that I can't find evidence for, but >thought >> that I'd better check to make sure that I'm not missing anything >> obvious. Do these names have any basis in reality? "Foston Hatton >> Hilton Bypass**" sounds like something that might have been written >on a >> planning application, but I've never seen it used anywhere. >> >> Cheers, >> Andy >> >> >> ** Some of the given names (such as "Foston Hatton Hilton Bypass") >are >> further complicated by having soft hyphens (hex AD) inserted between >> syllables, which results in the rendering of hyphens in some places >but >> not others. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-GB mailing list >Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-GB mailing list >Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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