[Talk-GB] Made-up motorway junction names

[Andy Townsend]

On 02/01/2023 20:13, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB wrote:
> Which of this names you (or anyone else) can confirm to be real?
> Is "Heath Interchange" an actual local name?
>
I'm familiar with the area, and I'm sure that "Heath Interchange" is not 
signed anywhere and I've never heard it as an actual local name.

To see what the situation is here, it might help to browse to 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/53.19817/-1.32294 , edit the map 
there, and look at the "OS OpenMap Local" and "OS OpenData StreetView" 
layers there.  These are government open data sets from 2022 and 2016 
respectively.

Historically, "Church Lane" ran from Heath village on the west from west 
to east, and "Mansfield Road" which ran from Heath village to the 
southeast.  These roads had names, but when the M1 and the new dual 
carriageway between Chesterfield and Mansfield were built, it 
interrupted these old roads.  The new roads built are not signed with 
names and no names for them are visible in either OS Open Data dataset.  
It is fair to assume that they do not have names.

OSM currently has "Church Lane" continuing in error from Stockley to the 
motorway junction.  This is incorrect (actually added by the same editor 
that we're talking about with the other edits: 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/122731548 ) - OS OpenMap Local 
shows how it use to run, although I don't believe that there is any 
signage of Church Lane past the Twinoaks Motel at 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/225868110 or past Heath Old Church at 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/318741308/history .

Similarly, OSM also has "Heath Road" extended beyond Heath village in 
error (same editor - https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/122731548 
again, see https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/140779691/history ).

I'm sure that these edits are made with the best of intentions (a bit 
like that non-Scots person editing half the articles on the "Scots" 
wikipedia), but "guessing" names in OSM or making things up like this is 
not OK.  Unfortunately this isn't the only example of this - 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/128868519 is another.

Best Regards,

Andy