[Talk-GB] Made-up motorway junction names

[Jass Kurn]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 10:42, Ed Loach <edloach at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> You’d think that the highways professionals who put temporary speed
> limit notices in newspapers would at least get the name correct.
> This one was mentioned in a local paper yesterday:
>
> But the section of A133 between Carpenters Lane and Elmstead Road is
> called Colchester Road (there are houses on the section with postal
> addresses that confirm it)
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.8809/0.9695
> I see Google Maps has it wrong - perhaps they used that to look up
> the name.
>
>
We're veering off topic, but it starts a discussion on who is the
definitive source for a street name, when considering only the Highways
Authority, OS, and Royal Mail.

The Highways Authority MUST use the correct name in a Traffic Order. The
Highways Authority is also responsible for naming and maintaining a
database of street names. Nationally this is brought together as the
National Street Gazetteer. The National Street Gazetteer, has the name of
the road you mention as "CLACTON ROAD" (USRN: 39900370). So the
Highways Authority does have the correct road name in the temporary speed
restriction you give.

But, OS has a different name, and are widely considered a definitive
source. OS is not a definitive source for a Street Name. But, their street
name data is available to OSM, and we respect OS, so do we use OS names in
preference to the definitive version used by the Highways Authority? I'd
like to know the official position of the OS on differences in Street Names.

Then we have street names in Royal Mail addresses. Since this source would
always be less trustworthy than Highways Authorities and OS, I would leave
them out of the discussion.

Jass
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