[OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed bypass

[Steve Chilton]

Amazing. Thanks for sharing that (and the photos).
My work is moving to just up the road (the Burroughs) in a couple of
months time and I shall certainly troll down and have a look at that at
some point.
I had obviously been looking sideways at the bridging point, whereas I
should have just looked sideways/backwards at the point it has blocked
reconnection at the southerly point. Will bike over and cycle down the
motorway like you did!
Cheers
STEVE

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[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Simon Hewison
Sent: 04 April 2008 16:56
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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Mottram and Tintwistle proposed bypass

Steve Chilton wrote:
> Stephen - Presume you are reasonably local to area mentioned in your
note.
> 
> I have often wondered about an artefact at the lower end of the M1:
> 
>
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.60727&lon=-0.24076&zoom=17&layers=B
0FT 
>
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.60727&lon=-0.24076&zoom=17&layers=
B0FT>
> 
> Labelled as "former M1 junc2".
> 
> I have driven down the A41 several times and can see no actual sign of

> it as I flash past, but Y! imagery shows it visible on ground.
> 
> Google imagery shows it looking much more like a footpath.
> 
> Do you (or anyone else) know what is actually on the ground, as I am 
> sure that having it tagged as motorway is wrong?!

That would have been me, who mapped it, in person. I rode my bike along
it.. 
which is maybe illegal, but maybe not.

It's really there on the ground, and really is a slip-road, just that
either 
end has crash barriers to prevent people from using it.

The hedges either side are overgrown, but is apparently still being
maintained 
sufficiently to be put into place as an exit at short notice should the 
current real J2 southbound slip road be out of action for a prolonged
period.

There's even street lights. Microsoft's "Bird's Eye" view on
maps.live.com 
shoes a fairly accurate representation of what's on the ground.

I tagged it as highway=motorway_link; use_status=disused (which was the 
preferred method of tagging such things at the time), and made sure that

neither end are connected - because they are not really accessible from
the 
roads at either end.

-- 
Simon Hewison

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