[Talk-GB] Made-up motorway junction names

[Andy Townsend]

Hello,

I've recently spotted a series of made-up names being applied to 
motorways in (at least) England.  An example is Junction 29 of the M1, 
which I've fixed in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/130779993 .  
In this example the "made-up name" applied to the roads was "Heath 
Interchange", and it was added in 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/111733622 by 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Falsernet .  I'm very familiar with 
that area and can guarantee that that is not the name there. Another 
example mentioned by someone familiar with that area is M1 J21 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/118874300 .

I've undone the changes where I can be sure from survey (6/12/2022) that 
the names do not exist, but there are many, many other similar changes 
in that user's sequence of edits, and I suspect that most are also 
similar made-up names.  Some I've no doubt will get reverted in time by 
local mappers but many may not because they suspect that the names are 
somehow valid, although the source seems to be "someone on the Internet 
made it up" (in the case of M1 J21 
https://www.roads.org.uk/motorway/m69/10 and 
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Whetstone_Interchange 
**).

What's the best way to deal with the rest of these?  Leave as is, and 
let the made-up names be removed following future surveys, or 
proactively revert based on the names not being visible on OS OpenData 
StreetView or OS OpenMap Local?  I'm tempted towards a revert, because 
otherwise the "bullshit asymmetry principle"*** will apply.

Best Regards,

Andy


** the first of those is copyright to one individual and clearly not 
usable in OSM, and the second has no licence information.

*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law