Re: [Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

2016-02-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 12/02/16 23:01, John Aldridge wrote: > You mean they serve the same function as not:name does for street names > in reducing noise from automated consistency checking? OK, I can see > that's useful. > >> But don't assume that the data >> provided by the third party are more up to date than the

Re: [Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

2016-02-12 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 12 February 2016 at 09:51, Stuart Reynolds wrote: > As a side issue, does your tool currently ignore disused:amenity=* tags? If > not, can it please. Thanks. The tool only fetches amenity=school and amenity=college objects, so disused:amenity=* (and other

[Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

2016-02-12 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
A couple of areas where I think we could improve on our tagging to help data users: * I think it would be useful if we had a machine-readable way to tag an amenity=school area that is actually a site shared between two or more individual schools. In this case, while the area will probably be

Re: [Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

2016-02-12 Thread Lester Caine
On 12/02/16 10:51, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > That said, it's on my To Do list to look at doing a fuzzy name > comparison -- probably by deleting common words / phrases (School, > Academy, CofE, Voluntary Controlled, and, &, etc) from both strings > and then seeing if what's left is

Re: [Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

2016-02-12 Thread John Aldridge
On 12-Feb-16 20:22, Lester Caine wrote: On 12/02/16 19:34, John Aldridge wrote: On 12-Feb-16 17:31, Lester Caine wrote: I adopted the standard of official_name=xxx where the edubase listing differs from the signage or other local 'format'... I'm not objecting, but why did you feel you wanted

Re: [Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

2016-02-12 Thread Lester Caine
On 12/02/16 19:34, John Aldridge wrote: > On 12-Feb-16 17:31, Lester Caine wrote: >> I adopted the standard of official_name=xxx where the edubase listing >> differs from the signage or other local 'format'... > > I'm not objecting, but why did you feel you wanted to clone information > from