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UK Roads; Data source?


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AnglianAV8R
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I appreciate that the surface data is very basic, albeit sufficient for recognising basic features when flying, but I seem to have spotted a new road that isn't actually there.

It is in Cambridgeshire, a dual carriageway that starts midway twixt Cambridge and Huntingdon (A14) and goes almost directly west before curving northwards to join the A1.

It passes about a mile north of Main Hall Farm and is potentially very misleading. Anyone having local knowledge, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I drove along the A14A1 to Peterborough from the Cambridge side last week and do not recollect a new junction along that stretch.

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This looks like the planned re-routing of the A14 which was dropped by the present government. It looks like this got into the roads database in readiness for it being built (although it now looks like it will never happen!)
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Have you tried viewing it on google to check it out, I'm sure you know how to, but just in case, right click the location on the chart and then 'view in google' You will then be able to get the map reference to help Tim identify it better
Edited 5/5/2012 8:41:11 PM by nje
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nje (05/05/2012)
Have you tried viewing it on google to check it out, I'm sure you know how to, but just in case, right click the location on the chart and then 'view in google' You will then be able to get the map reference to help Tim identify it better


Yup, checked it on google maps and it's not there in the real world but is there on SkyDemon chart.

Tim Dawson
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I'll check to see if there's an "under construction" flag in the data we receive that we're erroneously ignoring.
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I'll check to see if there's an "under construction" flag in the data we receive that we're erroneously ignoring.


Thanks Tim, Although sometimes roads "under construction" are more visible from the air than established roads! The problem with this road in particular is that construction hasn't yet started (and it looks like may never will!).
Edited 5/9/2012 3:29:34 PM by srayne
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One has to chuckle. Our plight, WRT non existent roads pales into insignificance when considering the Tsunami wiping out Vaga (EKVG) airport in the Faroes Wink

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Here it is:

http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/4211.aspx

Now classified as "withdrawn".

On 20th October 2010, the Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed that the current A14 Ellington to Fen Ditton scheme was unaffordable under any reasonable future funding scenario

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