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

[John Baker]

I had a response.

Apparently these are "official" Department of Transport road names.

Now I don't know as this differs to what is on the ground what should be done about this.

"Fos­ton Hat­ton Hilton Bypass", etc  don't as far I I know appear on the ground however I think the some record should appear in OSM. I am worried about the trend in this case of placing them as the "name" of the road as what reference point would people use for these.

Any thoughts?

John
From: rovastar at hotmail.com
To: lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:48:53 +0000
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] "road names" along the A50 (and elsewhere)




The user looks like a troll. None of his/her/bot changesets have any comments. And they bounce all over the world.

I think he deleted the original roads on the 21 jan 2013 as the history in OSM says they are new roads. 

Can someone look at reverting them all.

I sent the user this PM.

"What are you doing with your edits here?:


http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/14728720


You appear to have deleted major roads A50 and replaced them with strange names. Where are you getting your information.


Your changesets have no notes in them explaining what you have done.


Can you explain what you are doing before we revert the changes and look at getting you banned.


Cheers,


John"





> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:11:53 +0000
> From: lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk
> To: Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-GB] "road names" along the A50 (and elsewhere)
> 
> 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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