Re: [Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-04 Thread Paul Berry
Indeed, so long as you ignore https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/52528295, https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/134635221, etc ;) Feel free to adjust the mapping! Regards, *Paul* > By the way, there is at least one "sensibly mapped" university in > Cambridge: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/39

Re: [Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-04 Thread Russ Garrett
On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 21:37, Alan Mackie wrote: > On a completely unrelated note. Does any software actually support site > relations? openinframap.org does, for power plants (wind farms etc). I suspect it may be the only one. -- Russ Garrett r...@garrett.co.uk ___

Re: [Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-04 Thread Alan Mackie
On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 15:46, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB < talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > > Feb 4, 2020, 16:37 by talk-gb@openstreetmap.org: > > >> (Ironically, the current tagging makes it hard for me to search to see > >> if there's a "proper" amenity=university in there somewhere, e.

Re: [Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-04 Thread Andy Townsend
On 04/02/2020 15:37, Peter Neale via Talk-GB wrote: >There isn't, I'm afraid.. it's a right hotchpotch IMHO, it would be a waste of time, if you tried to create a single area object (do I mean "closed way"?) to be the university.  That would just be most of the city centre. The University is

Re: [Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-04 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB
Feb 4, 2020, 16:37 by talk-gb@openstreetmap.org: > >> (Ironically, the current tagging makes it hard for me to search to see > >> if there's a "proper" amenity=university in there somewhere, e.g. as a > >> relation or area covering a large swathe of them.) > > > >There isn't, I'm afraid.. it's

Re: [Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-04 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB
Feb 4, 2020, 15:14 by talk-gb@openstreetmap.org: > Hi > There was a discussion 5 years ago. There may have been others. > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2015-May/017455.html > > Many amenity=university tags were added unnecessarily to building=yes > A contributor had converte

Re: [Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-04 Thread Peter Neale via Talk-GB
>> (Ironically, the current tagging makes it hard for me to search to see >> if there's a "proper" amenity=university in there somewhere, e.g. as a >> relation or area covering a large swathe of them.) > >There isn't, I'm afraid.. it's a right hotchpotch IMHO, it would be a waste of time, if you t

Re: [Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-04 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
On 04/02/2020 14:28, Dan S wrote: Hi Dave, I agree with what you suggest. Can we be a bit precise though about what you propose? You're proposing to remove amenity=university from building=university in Cambridge, and make no other tagging changes? That's correct. I'm going to load the 1050 re

Re: [Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-04 Thread Dan S
Hi Dave, I agree with what you suggest. Can we be a bit precise though about what you propose? You're proposing to remove amenity=university from building=university in Cambridge, and make no other tagging changes? (Ironically, the current tagging makes it hard for me to search to see if there's

[Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

2020-02-04 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
Hi There was a discussion 5 years ago. There may have been others. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2015-May/017455.html Many amenity=university tags were added unnecessarily to building=yes A contributor had converted these to building=university, in accordance with the wiki. h