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

[David Earl]

On 21/06/2012 00:38, Ed Loach wrote:
> David wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I'd certainly argue that it isn't the A14, as when driving from
> Clacton to the West Midlands the road signs very clearly show A14 as
> the Huntingdon exit, and to the A1 straight on. But to my surprise
> OS OpenData StreetView shows it as the A14 when I checked just.

I think there was a prolonged discussion about this a couple of years 
ago that I got bored with.

But my point was that even though it may have a designated number, it 
isn't of any use to anyone other than traffic engineers because it isn't 
used on the ground. Like C numbers.

(For those that don't know, the main route of the A14 from Cambridge 
turns west at Huntingdon to head for Kettering, but it is an active turn 
off at a grade separated junction to do this. That's because the A14 was 
cobbled together from some new road and some existing road a few years 
back to form a midlands - east coast link road. Originally, this main 
road was the A604 between Cambridge and the A1 along this odd section; 
the western part of Kettering did not exist; and what is now the A422 
west from Cambridge to the A1 at St Neots (and then on to Northampton), 
and A14 east to Ipswich, was all the A45... which now, instead of 
running east from Northampton runs north-east to Wellingborough and 
joins the A14; quite why they didn't renumber the continuation of this 
road to Peterborough also A45 I don't know - it remains A605).

David