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Cambridge and the fact that I'm away from my Mac
Posted by Kevin Steinhardt on 26 December 2009 in English.Just found a road atlas mentioning and showing off Sandy Lane, Cambridge. Nothing wrong with that -- although it is a road atlas from 1997, and the road isn't show as under construction as on OSM. Now: I've walked past both ends of Sandy Lane: it's unsurfaced and looks under construction, but this doesn't make sense. I'm not playing on the licencing issues here; I'm merely saying a road can't be under construction for 12/13 years.
Discussion
Comment from JeffB on 26 December 2009 at 05:02
That road has been there since at least 1997, but it was just a back alley. Just recently, in the last year or so, it was tarted up to make it look more like a real road, although it's still very narrow. I'd say that it's not under construction, so I'm minded to remove the construction tag.
Comment from Skippern on 26 December 2009 at 21:54
Yes, roads can be under construction for years and years. Where I live the upgrade of the airport (that was started when the passenger capacity of the terminal was reached) is still underway 25 years or so later (the road exit to the new terminal is ready, but not a single wall is in place yet), the bypass highway ends halfway, another bypass highway goes zigzagging because there are still work going on on various parts of the road (8 years at least), one of the trans-national highways stopped 25 years ago because of funding, and now it cannot continue construction work due to protection issue such as suggested national parks. The road up to my inlaws was supposed to be paved long ago, money have been granted at least 5 times from the federal government, but there are still no paving on that road.
Comment from Kevin Steinhardt on 21 February 2010 at 19:49
@skippern Unpaved roads? I'm proud to say that we have none of those in the UK.