[Talk-GB] Odd edits around the A460 in the W Midlands

[Philip Barnes]

Hi Andy
The A460 is very definitely not a motorway. The change is wrong and
needs to be reverted. As a new Shropshire resident, I regularly travel
this way, as our familes are still in Leicestershire. I can correct this
from knowledge easily and can run a new GPS trace when I go that way at
the weekend. Will give me an excuse to look at the MGs.

I have come across both users in the past, the change to a motorway
looks like vandalism to me. Have you contacted the user? In the past I
have come across him using NPE maps to tag long since disappeared
railway stations on the Wales/Shropshire border, on a long since closed
railway.

I did email the other user about adding bicycle=no to motorways, and got
the following reply:

On 2012-09-21 19:31:49 UTC trig222 wrote:

    I have spotted that you have been tagging motorways as bicycle=no.

    Is there any reason you are doing this? It is implied by the highway
being a motorway.

Because I want to. My edits are not vandalism, they are correct and so
why I am doing them is not really germane now is it? 

His use of words like germane (I had to google it), did not impress me.
But probably harmless.   

Cheers Phil (trig222)


On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 20:33 +0100, SomeoneElse wrote:
> Does anyone know if the A460 is now subject to motorway regulations as 
> it passes over the M6 and M6 Toll?
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.66199&lon=-2.06171&zoom=16&layers=M
> 
> I'm guessing that it doesn't, and that the two most recent changes here 
> (to motorway_link and adding bicycle=no) are incorrect.  The changesets 
> involved are 13371510 and 13327657.
> 
> 13371510 seems to be mechanically adding "bicycle = no" to motorway links.
> 
> 13327657 seems to be part of a problematic series of edits which 
> includes some railway deletions, which someone's already repaired as 
> part of changeset 13402098.
> 
> I mention it here because if there is a bucket-and-shovel job to be 
> done, it's best done by someone familiar with the area
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
> 
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