Ok, that's me done. I see what you mean about the future northbound stretch - I can't remember if there's still another bridge to be built for that too, but I do know from February they'll be using the western half of ST08 for northbound traffic anyway, so it may as well be sitting ready for that changeover for the time being. I marked the old sections of Glanmire Bypass as abandoned too, I expect they'll be demolishing them before too long.

I'll pop in and take a look - I think it may require a slight reshape of the roundabout (which in essence has happened on the ground with the new alignment anyway), but I'd generally go for reusing the ways that are presewnt so that OSM retains the history since its inception. Give me a few minutes :-)

Hi Quainer, I was about to do this but I see you got in ahead of me ;-)

Just a note to say the new stretch of motorway over ST08 should follow the alignement of the more easterly "construction" way (immediately adjacent to the bit you made into a functioning motorway). The bit you've converted is actually the opposite side of the ST08 bridge, which will eventually become a northbound carriageway, but isn't yet opened. Do you mind if I swap these over? Or if the above makes sense, feel free to update yourself.

Just to avoid potential confusion/duplication of ways in the long run :-)

Tony

Judging by the route, the old bridge won't be affected, but the route does appear to overlie a section of the railway bed shortly after crossing the Erne - which is a shame, I'm always a fan of disused railways either reopening or becoming cycling routes 🙂

The web page I posted above had this link posted 3yrs ago, to a computerised flyover video of the route: https://vimeo.com/262413145 - you might find it interesting! And yes I wouldn't doubt there's plenty of potential for archaeology around there, it'll be interesting to see what comes up.

Hi MCDA. Yes it's been moving surprisingly quickly of late (especially given the speed at which stuff normally happens here!) - the latest update on http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/roads/a4enniskillensouthernbypass.html says that ownership of lands will transfer to DFI in around three weeks.

Yes, fixed it there now - it must have been the last thing I did in the area, joining all the outers and inners of the wood, which merged it with the lake. Thanks again for spotting it. I tend to use iD as my bread and butter as it's just quicker to get things done... Last time I used JOSM it was much more clunky and iD seems to be improving all the time. I do tend to have to double check certain things as I go along, but it's generally made me quite good at spotting issues before they are created - this instance excepted!

Damn... thanks for spotting! That took a lot of time too, I thought I had kept it together. Not helped of course by the different landuses that bordered it. I'll try and fix it now.

Hi Lewisdram,

I see you added a pharmacy named Ramsay's Pharmaceuticals on Upper Mealough Road, but I can't find any mention of it anywhere and there only appears to be a house at this location. Can I revert this please, or is there a reason to keep?

Thanks for the response. Hmm, I've thought a bit more on it I'n not quite so sure of my proposition :-) You're right, relative to surrounding streets they certainly get more traffic.

I think I was mostly driven by the 20mph zone on Mersey Street (I have been routinely tagging 20mph zones under the "living street" definition, but I probably wouldn't apply it here since it's still a through route) - unfortunately it's not clear from Streetview where the 20 zone ends otherwise I'd mark it on.

Meantime, perhaps it's fine as tertiary but with the 20 limit added whenever someone is in the area to review where it starts/ends. I'll just add a fixme note for now.

Hi _Madfly, I noticed that you've recently changed roads to tertiary - good work on this overall, but I would question a couple in East Belfast: Mersey Street, Parkgate Avenue, Pim's Avenue and Connsbrook Avenue.

I admit I've used the this route in the past to bypass traffic when in the area, but I've never thought of it as a "major" through-route. The roads (except for Connsbrook Ave perhaps) are all narrow, residential roads where passing can be difficult, and they're certainly not as well travelled as Dee Street, which makes sense as tertiary. Also part of Mersey Street is a 20 limit these days.

How would you feel about these four being reverted to residential?

Thanks for that VictorIE. I've double checked the video I used to reference this section and see that the road is still signposted from the new road, so yes it's still connected. I must have missed it as the video passed that point. Also added notes/fixmes as there will be changes over the coming months, but not sure of schedule.

Hi VictorIE, thanks for spotting - that looks like a mistake on my part, while updating some of the junction refs and destinations. Thanks for fixing!

Updated now.

Yes, they can be made no exit - the only reason I hadn't was that they might be rejoined to the new road at some point later in construction (next year or later) so I wasn't sure of the permanence of a "no exit" designation.

+1 - this is the cascade, but it is not intended for walking on. I noticed it was missing. Perhaps a stream way in the direction of flow? With a waterfall tag?

Many thanks - error fixed.

No problem, feel free to revert my edit then.

I had noticed this error of the railway appearing above the footbridge: https://topo.openmap.lt/#t/15.6/54.89567/23.97093/0/0
The above link is an OSM-based map site recently publicised on weeklyOSM.

I figured perhaps the error was because of multiple ways crossing over and under each other, underneath the footbridge. Thus perhaps increasing the layer number of the bridge would fix this. However I may be wrong, and it might just be that topo.openmap.lt has a bug and is rendering the data incorrectly.

Hi VictorIE, no a ford wouldn't be appropriate here as it is a tidal body of water, so the crossing can only be made at low tide. The highway is covered at any other time. A ford is only where a waterway i.e. flowing river is to be crossed, so the highway would be passable in all but flood conditions.

I forget exactly what's in this specific changeset, but the tracks and fences are from the Bing imagery in iD, sinkholes and names (and confirmation that all the above exists in these locations) are from local knowledge. Sinkholes and names are also available in the book The Caves of Fermanagh and Cavan, Ed2 (Fogg, Burns et al 1997) but I didn't use this reference as I've been to these locations and know them myself.