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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The “North Approach Road extension” opened yesterday according to today’s Gazette; I’ll be able to go get a GPS trace or two after work tomorrow. The bus lane by Colchester North station will reportedly be complete by the end of overnight roadworks at 5am on Monday (the first buses being at 7am).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Stuart Reynolds [mailto:stuart@travelinesoutheast.org.uk] <br><b>Sent:</b> 02 April 2015 15:31<br><b>To:</b> Ed Loach<br><b>Cc:</b> talk-gb OSM List E-mail<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-GB] Any mappers in Colchester who can help map a road?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ed, hi <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks. For info, Essex County Council have told me that they “...can confirm that the NAR3 is still being worked on and is planned to be open before the P&R is open”. As you are aware, the P&R service is due to start 13th April, a week on Monday.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Given the short time before it is opening, does anyone object that I have marked the road as a standard tertiary highway? I need it to be available for routing in our system, as the P&R bus does NOT go along Boxted Road, but equally I don’t want to inconvenience anyone else by having “wrong” data in OSM.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Stuart<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 2 Apr 2015, at 14:53, Ed Loach <<a href="mailto:edloach@gmail.com">edloach@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It isn’t open yet (at least when I last checked) – I’ve left the A12 where the park and ride is being built to the north of J28 and headed south to see if it was open. I’ve made a note where I amended the section to the south that was open (and still roadworks) when I last drove through:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/264728#map=15/51.9227/0.9052&layers=N"><span style='color:purple'>http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/264728#map=15/51.9227/0.9052&layers=N</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Still closed yesterday according to this story in our local paper</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/12693243.Roadworks_trigger_Park_and_Ride_changes/"><span style='color:purple'>http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/12693243.Roadworks_trigger_Park_and_Ride_changes/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>and a temporary route will be used until the over-running roadworks is completed.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I subscribe to the local paper as well as follow them and a number of their reporters on Twitter, so when it does open I’ll go up there and get a GPS trace as I did the day J28 first opened (although anyone else local is welcome to try and get there first…)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ed (Clacton-on-Sea)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Stuart Reynolds [<a href="mailto:stuart@travelinesoutheast.org.uk">mailto:stuart@travelinesoutheast.org.uk</a>]<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>02 April 2015 14:37<br><b>To:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>talk-gb OSM List E-mail<br><b>Subject:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>[Talk-GB] Any mappers in Colchester who can help map a road?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#5856D6'><br></span>Are there any mappers in Colchester who could survey the new Northern Approach Road phase 3 to the east and south of the old Severalls Hospital? The proposed alignment is shown on OSM, but Google has it differently at the western end, and also shows a set of roads south of Colchester Rugby Club (NW of Mill Road, opposite Brinkley Grove Road) that are not on OSM.<br><span style='color:#5856D6'><br></span>Essex County Council need me to route a bus along it, so a) I understand from them that it is open and no longer under construction and will annotate OSM accordingly, and b) I am going to go with the alignment shown for the time being as it seems to align to a route map that I have been sent.<br><span style='color:#5856D6'><br></span>But clearly surveyed data would be better if we can get it, please!<br><span style='color:#5856D6'><br></span>Regards,<br>Stuart<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>