Amazing. Thanks for sharing that (and the photos). My work is moving to just up the road (the Burroughs) in a couple of months time and I shall certainly troll down and have a look at that at some point. I had obviously been looking sideways at the bridging point, whereas I should have just looked sideways/backwards at the point it has blocked reconnection at the southerly point. Will bike over and cycle down the motorway like you did! Cheers STEVE
Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Learning and Technical Support Unit Manager School of Health and Social Sciences Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles/technical/chiltons.asp Chair of the Society of Cartographers: http://www.soc.org.uk/ SoC conference 2008: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cartographers08/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Hewison Sent: 04 April 2008 16:56 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed bypass Steve Chilton wrote: > Stephen - Presume you are reasonably local to area mentioned in your note. > > I have often wondered about an artefact at the lower end of the M1: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.60727&lon=-0.24076&zoom=17&layers=B 0FT > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.60727&lon=-0.24076&zoom=17&layers= B0FT> > > Labelled as "former M1 junc2". > > I have driven down the A41 several times and can see no actual sign of > it as I flash past, but Y! imagery shows it visible on ground. > > Google imagery shows it looking much more like a footpath. > > Do you (or anyone else) know what is actually on the ground, as I am > sure that having it tagged as motorway is wrong?! That would have been me, who mapped it, in person. I rode my bike along it.. which is maybe illegal, but maybe not. It's really there on the ground, and really is a slip-road, just that either end has crash barriers to prevent people from using it. The hedges either side are overgrown, but is apparently still being maintained sufficiently to be put into place as an exit at short notice should the current real J2 southbound slip road be out of action for a prolonged period. There's even street lights. Microsoft's "Bird's Eye" view on maps.live.com shoes a fairly accurate representation of what's on the ground. I tagged it as highway=motorway_link; use_status=disused (which was the preferred method of tagging such things at the time), and made sure that neither end are connected - because they are not really accessible from the roads at either end. -- Simon Hewison _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
