[Talk-GB] PRoW Ref tagging when ROW is also a road

[Mike Harris]

Hi

Thanks to David for raising this one and - as always - to Robert for a 
well thought through response.

I would be happy for an automated change to be made to prow:ref (as long 
as someone else does the work (:>) along the lines suggested by Robert. 
I agree that road numbering takes priority over PRoW numbering - not 
least because of the various vehicle routing uses of the road data. We 
should probably use the format suggested in an earlier message from 
David (as parish numbering is variable and could also lead to duplicates 
in different boroughs) and I think that this is in fact the format that 
Robert and I both now use - i.e. FP/BR/RB/BY<space><parish name in 
text><space><alphanumeric>.

However, I am conscious that I may in the past sometimes have used 
"BOAT" instead of "BY" (and these should be changed to "BY"). Any old 
"RUPP" should also be changed to "RB" in view of updated legislation.

Also - to expand on Robert's response - we would need to be careful with 
the field "alphanumeric" as it is fairly common for a PRoW to have a 
designation that has a letter suffixed to the number, e.g. 
"Tushingham-cum-Grindley BR 19A" - and the usage of the suffix letter is 
not consistent between councils (some use it where the status of the way 
has been changed (e.g. in Cheshire West & Chester), others use it where 
a segment of the PRoW 'owned' by one authority lies on the 'territory' 
of a neighbouring authority (e.g. in Cheshire East) - either because of 
mapping registration issues relating to the definitive map or because of 
boundary changes. I don't think that this is too big a problem as I 
don't think the format is ever more complex than "nc" where "n" is any 
number of numerical digits (three is the highest I have seen!) and "c" 
is a single alphabetical character.

I agree that any remaining exceptions can be dealt with manually (if 
someone gives me a list or tells me how to filter to produce a list).

Mike


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