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

[David Earl]

On 20/06/2012 18:30, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Andy Robinson wrote:
>> Basically any "route to" or deprecated "braid" should have a
>> bracketed number, though in many locations this may not have
>> happened yet.
>
> There's a slight tagging ambiguity when a link route connects two numbered
> routes, of course: often these will be signed as, say, '(5)' in one
> direction but '(51)' in the other. For the example in my group's 'patch', I
> chose to switch over the tagging at the railway station roughly halfway:
> http://osm.org/go/eutSPzu?layers=C

Indeed. We also have the same situation close to Cambridge, where it has 
been done as (11)(51) I think where it links the two (it's what you'd 
expect to see on the map I think). We could of course get into direction 
arguments, but the answer would then be pretty much the same as all the 
other things that are like this.

This also reminds me of the "A14" problem. This road
   http://bit.ly/LkFp3k
between the A1 at Alconbury and the A14 at Huntingdon (which keeps 
changing on OSM, but the last edit seems to have settled on A14, which 
isn't really helpful to anyone). On the ground it is only signposted as 
"(A1)" northbound and "(A14)" southbound IIRC.

David