[Talk-GB] "road names" along the A50 (and elsewhere)

SomeoneElse lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk
Mon Feb 18 23:11:53 GMT 2013


Recently various sections along the A50 between Derby and Stoke have 
grown names, for example here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/202232245/history

I've driven along that section of road many times, and I don't believe 
I've seen a name on any of the new sections.

According to Musical Chairs, there are genuinely no names:

http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map?zoom=15&lat=52.87983&lon=-1.66551&layers=B0TT&view_mode=pseudorandom

Some similar roads in Derbyshire do have official names, such as the A52 
"Brian Clough Way" between Derby and Nottingham, or well-used unoffical 
ones such as the A61 which locals regularly used to refer to as just the 
"Dronfield Bypass", but I've never heard of ones for the A50 being used.

I'm planning to remove names that I can't find evidence for, but thought 
that I'd better check to make sure that I'm not missing anything 
obvious.  Do these names have any basis in reality? "Fos­ton Hat­ton 
Hilton Bypass**" sounds like something that might have been written on a 
planning application, but I've never seen it used anywhere.

Cheers,
Andy


** Some of the given names (such as "Fos­ton Hat­ton Hilton Bypass") are 
further complicated by having soft hyphens (hex AD) inserted between 
syllables, which results in the rendering of hyphens in some places but 
not others.



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