[Talk-GB] Tangential roundabout lanes

[Edward Bainton]

I'm guessing the name may be one of those local names as used on traffic
news broadcasts. Sometimes they're local common-knowledge names, sometimes
the big green sign on the approach to the junction gives the name. It looks
like the Portway has only one roundabout, so the name makes sense?

I've never known how to *name* a junction so if anyone can tell me, great.

Especially, the doctrine of placing the junction *number* at the off-ramp
means the junction number tends not to render where I would like it as a
human reader: smack in the middle of the roundabout. That's a bit less of
an issue with numbers, but with named junctions it would be good to be able
to name them the way bridges can have their separate name (eg here
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.59912&mlon=-0.26327#map=19/52.59912/-0.26327>).
Any tips?

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 00:24, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 01/02/2021 23:42, Neil Matthews wrote:
> > No idea -- it's off a road called "The Portway" and it's a sort of
> > roundabout like thing (if you squint)?
>
> What I was getting at is that it might be a violation of "name is only
> the name", based on loose terminology about the type of feature it is.
>
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