Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

2016-01-18 Thread Chris Hill
On 18/01/16 06:50, Marc Gemis wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Lester Caine wrote: On 17/01/16 20:42, Ed Loach wrote: So, should we be using the full school name or abbreviating 'church of england voluntary aided' to CEVA as they do on the school pullovers? Similar questions for other v

Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

2016-01-18 Thread Brian Prangle
I don't think we should worry about getting a standard for this. I think our main task is to extend the data and clean it up as far as we can. Then we can use the name anomalies to try and get the relevant community (i.e the schools themselves) to add the correct name - which will be the one THEY p

Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

2016-01-18 Thread Lester Caine
On 18/01/16 08:12, Dan S wrote: >> Isn't this a "mechanical" edit ? Shouldn't we list what is on the >> > ground, .i.e. the name that can be found on the entrance in the name >> > field ? >> > I would put CEVA in short_name. > There is also "official_name" which I think would be useful for the > fu

Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

2016-01-18 Thread Dan S
2016-01-18 6:50 GMT+00:00 Marc Gemis : > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 17/01/16 20:42, Ed Loach wrote: >>> So, should we be using the full school name or abbreviating 'church of >>> england voluntary aided' to CEVA as they do on the school pullovers? >>> Similar questi

Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

2016-01-17 Thread Marc Gemis
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > On 17/01/16 20:42, Ed Loach wrote: >> So, should we be using the full school name or abbreviating 'church of >> england voluntary aided' to CEVA as they do on the school pullovers? >> Similar questions for other variations - I've seen CE, CoE,

Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

2016-01-17 Thread Lester Caine
On 17/01/16 20:42, Ed Loach wrote: > So, should we be using the full school name or abbreviating 'church of > england voluntary aided' to CEVA as they do on the school pullovers? > Similar questions for other variations - I've seen CE, CoE, C of E for > example. I've been changing them to match wh

[Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

2016-01-17 Thread Ed Loach
So, should we be using the full school name or abbreviating 'church of england voluntary aided' to CEVA as they do on the school pullovers? Similar questions for other variations - I've seen CE, CoE, C of E for example. I've been leaving existing names in the main (occasionally adding VC or VA) in