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Closed over 17 years ago by MichaelCollinson

• Comment from TrekClimbing over 3 years ago

  Hi Mike
  One of the early changesets, pre-50k! I think Green Terrace https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4594951 could do with changing, although I'm not sure how exactly. As I see it this is a back alley for the houses of Belle Vue Terrace. I've just added the path for the houses of Green Terrace https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/929335471 which is walled off from the road. Should I name the footway Green Terrace and change the road to be an unnamed alley? Personally, I don't like naming footpaths after what I see as the name of houses but I can appreciate it's helpful!

• Comment from MichaelCollinson over 3 years ago

  Hi TrekClimbing and thank you for getting in touch. What you propose is probably best, particularly if you have resurveyed the location. I will have got the name from a sign so its "real" but I guess the exact location is pertinent. Perhaps name the actual terrace as well?

  As an observation, I notice that as the original planners/builders/postmen did have the issue of precisely catagorising things for digital maps ... they didn't. That kind of leaves us to make the decision. For me, I'm fine with name paths, track, services roads in such cases - for me, preserving name is important as is navigational convenience - but I agree that is a matter of interpretation.

• Comment from MichaelCollinson over 3 years ago

  PS. And perhaps highway=service, service=alley may be now more appropriate for the original way itself? Perhaps Belle Vue Terrace also?

• Comment from TrekClimbing over 3 years ago

  Thanks very much Mike. The sign certainly exists: https://postimg.cc/PvZVpzXY The arrow, and its position on the path side of the wall, has me think that it isn't referring to the road at the back of Belle Vue Terrace. See also https://postimg.cc/5HrM8gVR

  So, I think change what is currently called Green Terrace to be an unnamed highway=service, service=alley; name the path and the building outline.

  You ask a good question about Belle Vue Terrace. I had been thinking that because the road was at the front of the houses it was okay as a highway=residential, but now I look again, it's more like a parking area to the side of the highway=service that runs to the mechanics yard at the back of the theatre: https://postimg.cc/Q9WZm7Nx
  Here's the road that continues on to the mechanic's yard https://postimg.cc/t1Jj1fL6
  and here's some bollards near the entrance from The Green https://postimg.cc/pmqvLx1x

  Looking on the web, the addresses for those businesses are given as Unit #, Belle Vue Terrace, so it seems it would be legitimate to move it to be the road that goes into that yard, either as a highway=service or a highway=residential?

• Comment from TrekClimbing over 3 years ago

  P.S. I thought you knocked the conversation about level of mapping detail on talk-gb into a cocked hat :)

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