Incorrect Road Data - Raised note for a second time

Communities United Kingdom
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Hi All, Apologies for moaning and I’m not sure if you can help but I have raised a note twice now for an incorrect road connection that is gated and for emergency vehicles only but it has still not been resolved. Is there another way of raising this? Thanks,.

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Possibly about:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/974195903#map=18/52.188303/-2.275506&layers=N

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@CrownEastLane is it about those notes or something else?

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Raising a note doesn’t guarantee that anyone will fix it. OSM edits are done by volunteers, and whether a note gets addressed depends on whether there are active, motivated volunteers in the local area.

If you want it to be fixed in a shorter timeframe, you can edit OSM yourself using the “Edit” button. It takes you through a helpful tutorial the first time you do it.

That said, if your notes do concern the access road that @CjMalone identifies below, then it’s already marked as private so it would be helpful if you could explain your issue further.

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Good detective work by CjMalone.

CrownEastLane took up Richard’s suggestion to do the edit themself. They did quite well, as well as you would expect for someone new to OSM. I have tidied-up some loose ends. In their notes and in this topic, CrownEastLane only partly explained the problem. They also referred to Aymestrey Court without saying where it was - it’s not named on OSM. I did not find any obvious open source for its location.

The edit did make it clear what CrownEastLane sought. There is an unadopted road which makes a large loop off the main road. They wanted traffic going to a particular property to go the long way round rather than the short way round! When the long way round was (very reasonably) tagged private in response to the first note, it didn’t make a difference.

Both Google Maps and Apple Maps have a gap in the loop, positioned to make traffic go the long way round. I wonder whether this was instigated by the residents. Ordnance Survey doesn’t have a gap but comments elsewhere in this forum suggest it’s well-nigh impossible to get them to listen. I wonder whether OSM was the last man standing. (There is now a section marked as closed.)

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