<div dir="ltr">Hi Robert,<div><br></div><div>I spotted your name a few times while browsing FOI requests to Newham!<br><br>Not one of yours but I thought this might be fruitful: <a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/list_of_roads_215">https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/list_of_roads_215</a></div><div><br></div><div>Alas no, they did not actually fully comply with the FOI request as they omitted the road classifications. So close and yet...</div><div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><i>Paul</i><br><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 12:50, Robert Skedgell <<a href="mailto:rob@hubris.org.uk">rob@hubris.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Unfortunately, the chances of Newham providing any information under OGL<br>
or any other OSM-compatible licence are vanishingly small. They're<br>
almost pathologically opposed to open data and the highways department<br>
is particularly secretive.<br>
<br>
Unless the information is released in an open data set from TfL or the<br>
Greater London Authority, we may be able to find out as individuals, but<br>
not to include the data in OSM.<br>
<br>
On 05/01/2022 11:49, Paul Berry wrote:<br>
> You should be able to get a definitive answer by contacting the body<br>
> responsible for highways in the area, which is Newham London<br>
> Borough Council, but I suspect their records are based on modern OS<br>
> mapping so the error (if it is one and it looks like it is) will<br>
> circulate forever.<br>
> <br>
> However, given there appears to be zero signage on the ground, The<br>
> Olympic Route Network Designation Order 2009 legislation seems pretty<br>
> weighty in terms of authoritativeness.<br>
> <br>
> Good luck.<br>
> <br>
> Regards,<br>
> /Paul/<br>
> <br>
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 08:00, Andrew Hain <<a href="mailto:andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk" target="_blank">andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk" target="_blank">andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> The author of<br>
> <a href="https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-national-street-gazetteer.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-national-street-gazetteer.html</a><br>
> <<a href="https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-national-street-gazetteer.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-national-street-gazetteer.html</a>><br>
> finds OSM’s road number for Balaam Street in Plaistow surprising.<br>
> How could we doublecheck it?<br>
> <br>
> --<br>
> Andrew<br>
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> Wednesday, January 05, 2022 A reader asks... When a B-Road becomes<br>
> semi-declassified, how do we know its new extent? Is there an online<br>
> database of B-Roads somewhere?<br>
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