I take it that these names are used by Nominatim to assist with search. I
know it's another form of tagging-for-the-renderer, but do you know
how/whether changes affect it?
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:31 PM Russ Garrett wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> By way of lockdown procrastination, I started looking at place nodes
> in London. The main things which were annoying me are:
>
> * The presence of a few archaic place names which were presumably
> derived from NPE or other historic maps but are generally out of use
> now.
> * A surprisingly large number of place names present in OS StreetView
> are unmapped on OSM.
> * Most places in London are tagged as place=suburb, regardless of
> their size/importance. This issue especially is annoying me quite a
> lot now I've started noticing it.
>
> I started demoting some place=suburbs to place=quarter, and promoting
> one or two of them to place=town (as this seems to be almost
> universally used as the next level up from suburb in London), when it
> was pointed out that it's probably worth discussing this.
>
> These place tags are quite subjective, especially because they
> frequently get used for reasons which don't really tie in with their
> name, and wiki is pretty vague about their definition, so I don't
> think we can avoid some level of tagging for the renderer here.
>
> I think it would be useful to document which of these tags we want to
> use in London, and ideally some kind of heuristic for where to use
> them.
>
> I've generated a list of all place nodes within Greater London and the
> City, by type:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ru/London_Place_Nodes
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Russ Garrett
> r...@garrett.co.uk
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