Changeset: 38273597
fix the rest of rayleigh road
Closed by h2g2bob
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created_by | iD 1.9.2 |
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host | http://www.openstreetmap.org/id |
imagery_used | Bing |
locale | en-GB |
Discussion
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Comment from Mike Baggaley
Is Rayleigh Road no longer the A1015? Please either remove ref=A1015 or reinstate highway=primary. Thanks.
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Comment from h2g2bob
Hi, the A1015 continues down Rayleigh Road here, but this is no longer the main route used by traffic. Out of 15,000 cars going along Rayleigh Road, 13,000 continue along Whitehouse Road (according to https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=17kjyGeMlh5qOb0UD3a2VwaxD173Cjssy61SDQ_Y#map:id=3 ). In this change, I also made Whitehouse Road and Nestuda Way (officially a B-road, but actually a large dual carriageway). My feeling is that this makes the map more useful by showing the wider, more useful and more popular roads as the primary route.
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Comment from trigpoint
Hi h2g2bob
I am not sure that google docs is a valid source of information for OSM, especially as the map it contains is from a source that must never ever be used in OSM.
In OSM we map what exists and we can survey and verify on the ground, not what we feel makes a more useful map.
This change should be reverted back to the signage that appears on the ground.
Cheers Phil -
Comment from h2g2bob
Hi,
To be clear, the edit to the map is from observing how traffic uses the Rochford Corner junction (I'm local to the area) and observing that almost all the traffic continues to Whitehouse Road and very little continues south.
The council have classified these roads poorly compared to their actual usage. Are you suggesting I should ask the council to re-classify these roads? I doubt they have any incentive to change road classification.
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