On Dec 3, 4:31*pm, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Peter Heather wrote:
"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0812021750470.24011@urchin .earth.li...

Has anyone actually looked at the links i posted? Specifically, the second
one?

Well I have for one and it's a complete work of fiction. I'm surprised
no one else has commented already. The straight roman road that it shows
crossing the Thames and heading into Victoria

You mean Porto. The road shown on the map terminates in Porto. In
Portugal. Having crossed London, southern England, the English Channel,
France, the Bay of Biscay, and northern Spain.

No I don't mean Porto. I am talking about the northern end where a dual
carriageway is shown carving through south west London (and further
afield) and into central London.

Oops, yes, of course, sorry.

I don't think it is a simple error as someone has gone to the trouble of
merging this ficticious road with the other real roads and moving the
street names as well. I can't understand why anyone should want to waste
their time doing so.

I assume the merging happened automatically. I think that unless road
crossings are marked as being multi-level, the system treats them as
junctions. Or did you mean merging it with the roads at the end? Yes, i'm
not sure how that could have happened.

Which street names were moved?

Anyway, it seems to be fixed now - i can still see the northern bit at the
highest zoom level, but it's gone from the other zoom levels.

tom

It did have Strutton Ground (and some other names that had been
'pinched' from elsewhere) marked on the mythical dual carriageway, but
as you say, the 'roman road' seems to have vanished completely now, at
least in London, and Strutton Ground is shown attached to correct
road. Someone must have been listening.

Peter