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

[Michael Booth]

The Scottish trunk/motorway network in OSM is based on the official list 
of trunk roads published by Transport Scotland here: 
https://www.transport.gov.scot/publication/official-list-of-trunk-roads/

That list says it should A8(M), as shown by the two grid references on 
the map 
https://gridreferencefinder.com/osm/?gr=NS6912064150|269120_s__c__s_664150|1,NS6883064140|268830_s__c__s_664140|1&v=r&labels=1

On 20/01/2023 19:38, yasslay 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 
> <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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