[Talk-GB] Status regarding the 'A8(M)' near Baillieston, Glasgow

[Timothy Noname]

If there are signs that prohibit cyclists, pedestrians, mopeds and invalid
vehicles, then it's a motorway. If they aren't prohibited, it's an A road

On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, 19:40 yasslay, <yasslayosm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I noticed that there's been a bit of a mapping war in the last year or so
> regarding the status of the
> 'A8(M)' near Baillieston, Glasgow.
>
> While I am not particularly familiar with the area, I looked through the
> way history (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/412543014 for reference)
> and found that there'd been a bunch of edits with some users removing the
> numbering from the A8(M) (one even went as far to remove the motorway
> status from it) and others who kept on adding the numbering back to the
> short motorway.
>
> In my personal opinion, I think the numbering's been discarded as shown by
> this bit of Bing Streetside imagery (
> https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=55.852734%7E-4.09686&lvl=17.0&v=2&sV=1&style=x&dir=93.3&pi=-6.7)
> which refers to it as a spur of the M8 and the entrance onto the spur from
> the big roundabout just says A8, which is further reinforced by a counting
> reference on the DfT's website (
> https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/manualcountpoints/91185) referring to it
> as just the A8, but I'd say the appropriate tagging for this would be
> ref=M8 and highway_authority_ref=A8 or something.
>
> I decided to post this here as a way to see what everyone thinks of the
> situation before any action is taken upon it.
>
> Kind regards,
> yasslay
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