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87536350 about 5 years ago

1: There were indeed some gratuitous GPS artifacts, and I've corrected those. However my photos do indicate that paths aren't entirely symmetric. For instance, the outer crossing of the Bar Hill exit has a strange cut-out from one corner that's missing from the others. I don't think we can do much better without aerials.

87233110 about 5 years ago

Thanks; that allowed me to find a couple of the other boundaries of the weight limit. Even if it were OK for copyright purposes, I wouldn't trust the accuracy of that map. For one thing it says there's a 3t weight limit in central Cambridge and while there are traffic regulation orders to that effect I've never found any sign of it on the ground.

79018347 over 5 years ago

Removing "porters" from each of these entrance= tags caused the porters' lodges to stop being marked on the University Map. I've made them entrance=main;porters, but is there a better way we should be tagging "this entrance leads to the porters' lodge"? I suppose more generally, "this entrance is staffed" -- College-specific terminology isn't really necessary here.

79103841 over 5 years ago

Has this building really been demolished? I ask because that's what completely removing the way (including the building=yes tag) means.

75603514 almost 6 years ago

Yes; that's one of the government sources I referred to. The "Addresses" layer of My Cambridgeshire, which I think comes from the National Address Gazetteer, says that the street name precisely follows the parish boundary, so the American cemetery is on St Neots Road, Madingley, but Coton Court and Blue Gates opposite it are on Madingley Road, Coton.

As you suggest, using those as a source might be a bit dubious, so the source I actually used was the Web sites of various places along the road (cemetery, Madingley Mulch, Woodfield House, Rectory Farm). All of them call the road "Madingley Road". In the absence of signs I think that's the nearest thing to an on-the-ground name that we have.

Incidentally, Royal Mail also goes for "Madingley Road, Coton" for the whole length, but the postcodes split precisely on the parish boundaries.

75071638 almost 6 years ago

I cycled this section today, and your new alignment was a perfect fit for my GPS track. I wasn't paying attention to what the A14 slip was doing, though.

74254413 almost 6 years ago

Note that above I confused "inbound" and "outbound". It's the inbound carriageway that's closed, and the outbound one is being used for two-way traffic.

71760315 about 6 years ago

Sorry about that. Happily I don't think the difference actually affects anything in this edit: all the building sites that I tagged are still building sites in the newer imagery.

69760179 over 6 years ago

May I ask why you made this edit? The Avenue was connected to the A1307 when I surveyed it earlier today, and when I was out that way last weekend. Anyway, I've reconnected it now.

69833302 over 6 years ago

What's going on here? You've mapped an additional road precisely along the line of The Avenue. What change on the ground are you trying to represent?

69831763 over 6 years ago

Does this exist on the ground now? It wasn't obvious at the eastern end when I was out that way on Thursday.

65506218 over 6 years ago

FYI, I just cycled along the road from Dry Drayton to Oakington and the change you mapped there hasn't happened yet: the new road up to the bridge is nowhere near finished. I'll revert the changes in this area.

49562560 about 8 years ago

If your purpose is different from that of "name", maybe you should use a different key. osm.wiki/Key:name has a variety of existing options for different kinds of name. Alternatively you could use name:university_of_cambridge (by analogy with ref:university_of_cambridge) if you want a way to reference the University's name for something where that differs from the name marked on it.

49562560 about 8 years ago

Then I think the "map what's on the ground" principle on osm.wiki/Good_practice means we should use the name on the substation identity plate rather then the one in your database.

49562560 about 8 years ago

Hello. What's your source for this new name? I checked the plate on the substation gate on my way home and it still says "ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERV".

36529160 almost 9 years ago

Did you really intend to map the Harston war memorial as the offices of Sphere Medical Ltd?

40316678 about 9 years ago

There's a sign next to each entrance to those paths saying "Private Grounds". I've added source tags to indicate this.

40316678 about 9 years ago

I visited Shire Hall today to check the County Council's records, and they believe that the entire parking bay, including the footway behind it, is part of the highway.

40316606 about 9 years ago

I've reinstated the tags, and added access=private which would seem to capture the intent behind these changes, and the situation on the ground.

36127008 over 9 years ago

I've roughly updated that, which turned out to be fairly easy.