[Talk-GB] Uk Missing Major Roads.

Peter Miller peter.miller at itoworld.com
Thu Aug 27 11:30:16 BST 2009


On 27 Aug 2009, at 11:12, Tom Hughes wrote:

> On 27/08/09 11:05, Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>> In fact I can't find any map which shows either the tunnel or the
>> approach roads as the A102(M) - they all shown as the A102 for the  
>> whole
>> length from the junction with the A12/A13 to the north to the  
>> junction
>> with the A2 to the south.
>
> I have now found these:
>
>   http://pathetic.org.uk/former/a102m_blackwall_tunnel_southern_approach/
>   http://math.colorado.edu/~rmg/roads/a102m.html
>
> So it was de-motorwayed in 1999 but was always a bit of an oddity as  
> the
> southern approach from the Sun in the Sands roundabout to the tunnel  
> was
> a motorway but the tunnel and northern approach weren't. Any remaining
> signs for the A102(M) are erroneous.

Would it be useful to validate our classification and labelling of  
roads in OSM against the relevant WIkipedia article[2].

If the Wikipedia article is wrong or the information isn't sourced  
then it would be helpful to update the WIkipedia article.

It would be useful to create a relation for the road and link it to  
the Wikipedia article using the 'wikipedia' tag. See 'External  
references'[1]

This should ensure that the tagging in OSM doesn't regress for lack of  
proper references for the tagging and Wikipedia provides a much richer  
ways of providing references than OSM.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/External_links

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A102_road

Regards,


Peter

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