<div dir="auto">Yes, I doubt this is the case considering the blue signage naming it the M8 at the smaller roundabout.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 at 10:39, Jon Pennycook via Talk-GB <<a href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><div>Such signs would probably make the road a "non-motorway special road" - motorways don't usually have such signs in the UK. eg the A3290 <a href="https://mapillary.com/map/im/135355215291031" target="_blank">https://mapillary.com/map/im/135355215291031</a> which is restricted south of the crossing.</div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_road" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_road</a></div></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jon<br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 21 Jan 2023, 00:49 Timothy Noname, <<a href="mailto:hervbeof@gmail.com" target="_blank">hervbeof@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px">If there are signs that prohibit cyclists, pedestrians, mopeds and invalid vehicles, then it's a motorway. If they aren't prohibited, it's an A road</span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, 19:40 yasslay, <<a href="mailto:yasslayosm@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">yasslayosm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr">Hello!<div><br></div><div>I noticed that there's been a bit of a mapping war in the last year or so regarding the status of the </div><div>'A8(M)' near Baillieston, Glasgow.</div><div><br></div><div>While I am not particularly familiar with the area, I looked through the way history (<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/412543014" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/412543014</a> for reference) and found that there'd been a bunch of edits with some users removing the numbering from the A8(M) (one even went as far to remove the motorway status from it) and others who kept on adding the numbering back to the short motorway.</div><div><br></div><div>In my personal opinion, I think the numbering's been discarded as shown by this bit of Bing Streetside imagery (<a href="https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=55.852734%7E-4.09686&lvl=17.0&v=2&sV=1&style=x&dir=93.3&pi=-6.7" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=55.852734%7E-4.09686&lvl=17.0&v=2&sV=1&style=x&dir=93.3&pi=-6.7</a>) which refers to it as a spur of the M8 and the entrance onto the spur from the big roundabout just says A8, which is further reinforced by a counting reference on the DfT's website (<a href="https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/manualcountpoints/91185" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/manualcountpoints/91185</a>) referring to it as just the A8, but I'd say the appropriate tagging for this would be ref=M8 and highway_authority_ref=A8 or something.</div><div><br></div><div>I decided to post this here as a way to see what everyone thinks of the situation before any action is taken upon it.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>yasslay</div></div>
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