[Talk-GB] Dartford Crossings

[Andy Allan]

I should clarify - I'm not disagreeing with your conclusion, just your
stated reasoning ;-)

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Andy Allan<gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> What? That page says nothing like that - it says you can use your
> bicycle for free, and someone will drive you and it across the
> crossing. Don't tell me you're proposing tagging it as a trunk road
> simply so that naive cycle routing algorithms* will take you that way?
> That's mis-tagging of the highest order.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> * == all of them count as naive for
> bicycle=free_and_carried_for_you_by_transit_authority
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Shaun
> McDonald<shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
>> They should be trunk. There is an intentional gap in the M25 to allow
>> routing of cyclists and pedestrians.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartford_Crossing#Non-road_traffic
>>
>> Shaun
>>
>> On 12 Jun 2009, at 10:57, Ed Loach wrote:
>>
>>> While scanning for more obvious liam123 changes, I spotted the QE2 bridge
>>> and the Dartford tunnel. The bridge and one direction of the two tunnels are
>>> tagged as A282(M) and the other tunnel as A282. All tagged highway=motorway.
>>> I don't believe they are motorway - I think from driving it that the M25
>>> ends at the last junction north of the river and starts at the first
>>> junction south of the river after the toll booths.
>>>
>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.4653&lon=0.2607&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF
>>> I was wondering whether they should all be retagged highway=trunk (and
>>> perhaps the (M) references lost)?
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
>>>
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