[Talk-GB] Made-up motorway junction names

[Andy Townsend]

(trying to answer a few things in one here)

On 02/01/2023 16:24, Jon Pennycook wrote:
> Gabriel Reynolds was also a namer of interchanges - I don't remember 
> seeing a sign for this one, for example, although I am normally on 
> foot near here:-
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/51190462
>
Yes, https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/51210460 was one of theirs 
that I commented on.  There was no reply, but that's not exactly a 
surprise as they haven't been around for a few years.  I know that the 
name there isn't signed, so removed it in 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/130779458 .


On 02/01/2023 13:08, Martin Wynne wrote:
> I doubt the names are totally fictional.
>
> Most of the junctions and roundabouts in these parts have local names, 
> well-known to local motorists and often used in local radio traffic 
> reports, but appear on no map.

Indeed - plenty of the junctions that I edited this morning have local 
names, for example https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5408236527 .  For 
the avoidance of doubt, none of the names used by Falsernet previously 
matched any local names that I am aware of, as SK53 said:


On 02/01/2023 15:26, SK53 wrote:
 > I've been passing through that junction as a driver for 40 years. 
Never once have I heard it called the "Heath Interchange", similarly, 
for the "Whetstone Interchange" and "Kirkby Muxloe Interchange" neither 
of which are intuitive names (if I wanted to clarify which junction to 
someone I'd use something like Leicester Forest or Aylestone for the 
former, and A46/Fosse Way for the latter). Trigpoint will know better 
what it is known as locally.

"Fosse Park" is what I've heard that referred to as most recently, 
though obviously that post-dates the redevelopment of the junction here 
to serve Fosse Park and Leicester as well as the M69.

There may be other junctions that need loc_names adding - obviously 
people who know them should add those.


On 02/01/2023 13:52, Steve Doerr wrote:
> On 02/01/2023 12:38, Andy Townsend wrote:
>> In this example the "made-up name" applied to the roads was "Heath 
>> Interchange",
>
> However, Heath *Intersection* does appear in the official postal 
> addresses for postcode S44 5SL.

A quick web search (not compatible with OSM) suggests that that might be 
for the ambulance station behind the gritting depot, just off the 
motorway.  OSM has the road that that is on as "Heath Road", perhaps as 
an extrapolation of "Heath Road" that runs from Holmewood to Heath.  If 
I was going to try and make up a name for a green-field ambulance depot 
here, "Heath Intersection" sounds a reasonable one.

However, the previous changeset 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/111733622 had applied the "Heath 
Interchange" to include all the roads that form part of the roundabout 
above the junction - see 
https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=111733622 .  There's simply no 
evidence for those names there.

Best Regards,

Andy


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