[Talk-GB] The curious case of USRN 20602512

[Jez Nicholson]

Whilst we are on USRNs (and UPRNs), I have updated
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_OpenData to include
them. The whole discussion on how they join up could merit a wiki section
or page of its own...somewhere to collect together all the snippets of
information.....just a gentle reminder that if we don't document stuff then
it disappears into the ether. Sure, it's on Talk-GB archive, but it's still
just talk.

On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, 11:06 Mark Goodge, <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On 15/07/2020 09:05, Phillip Barnett wrote:
> > Could you not just ask the local mapper to knock on any doors in the
> > street and ASK them the name? And then use that local knowledge?
>
> In this case, there are no doors on the street as it's just an access road!
>
> What might work would be to contact a local councillor, say, and ask
> them for the name of the street. Their local knowledge can then be used
> in OSM.
>
> If you wanted to pursue the FOI route, another option would be to ask
> for documentation from the time when the road was named, showing the
> decisions made. It would probably date from the time when the entire
> estate was built. But the council may no longer have those records, as
> it is some time ago.
>
> Mark
>
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