[Talk-GB] England Cycling Data project: DfT cycling data now available for merging

[David Earl]

On 20/06/2012 14:57, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) wrote:
> Merging this data I see that some ways that just lead to an NCN route (but
> are not actually part of the continuous route) are still marked with the
> ncn=yes;ncn_ref=xx tags for the route the lead to.
>
> What's the feeling on this? I'm a bit torn:
>
> - On the one hand they are not "the route", as in the signed route that goes
> from A to B. They are simply access ways leading to "the route". Including
> them in the route could be misleading.
>
> - But on the other hand, the "on the ground" situation is that roads/paths
> near NCN routes often have signs pointing towards the route and these seem
> (to me) to be indistinguishable from the signs along the route.

I don't know about elsewhere in the country, but in Cambridgeshire the 
council has used the parenthesis convention on such signs: the ncn ref 
in the red block with brackets round it:
   http://www.cyclestreets.net/location/29870/cyclestreets29870.jpg

I think we could do well to do the same in the ncn_ref tag.

David