[OSM-talk] Oxford University use without attribution

[Andrew MacKinnon]

On Nov 28, 2007 9:38 AM, Stephen Gower <socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:35:52AM +0100, Simon Hewison wrote:
> >
> > I've contacted Oxfordshire County Council Highways, who confirm that the
> > route of the A420 does still run as along the High Street, St Aldates,
> > Oxpens, despite the traffic restrictions on the High Street, this
> > contradicts a wikipedia rumour (which I corrected, and cited the source)
>
>   That's really annoying (although you did well in getting an actual
>   confirmation)!  I was the one who downgraded this to Tertiary given
>   only the evidence on-the-ground, as it were.  This situation means
>   our maps indicate what most people (I think) would guess is a
>   major through-route for Oxford when really it's nothing of the sort
>   (and will get you a £60 fine if you attempt it in a car during the
>   day time).
>
>   Anyone got any bright ideas on how we can tag this so that although
>   it's officially an A road it doesn't render as such? - Google have
>   it looking like an unclassified road.  Personally I'd change it to
>   Tertiary again (or even unclassified), until such time as the
>   administrative and physical aspects of the Highway key have been
>   disentangled. I suspect however that someone would go and change it
>   right back now the official A-road numbering has been confirmed,
>   and I don't want an edit war over this!
>
Please see the thread entitled "Advanced highway tagging" for a
discussion of this. Clearly the tag indicating a road's official
designation shouldn't be the same tag that indicates how important it
is, especially in cases like this where an A-road isn't even open to
traffic!