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

[yasslay]

Yes, I doubt this is the case considering the blue signage naming it the M8
at the smaller roundabout.

On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 at 10:39, Jon Pennycook via Talk-GB <
talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Such signs would probably make the road a "non-motorway special road" -
> motorways don't usually have such signs in the UK. eg the A3290
> https://mapillary.com/map/im/135355215291031 which is restricted south of
> the crossing.
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_road
>
> Jon
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> On Sat, 21 Jan 2023, 00:49 Timothy Noname, <hervbeof at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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