Can you put that on a different thread. On Sat, 23 May 2015 at 12:15 Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> wrote:
> Hi > > Going minorly off on a tangent - One item I would change is leisure=pitch > which current represents whole areas of sports grounds to > leisure=recreation_ground, & have leisure=pitch to indicate just the > pitches (ie the white lines of a football pitch). Currently there are > situations with two 'pitches' on top of each other. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.40868/-2.37860 > > David Fox > > On 22/05/2015 14:58, David Earl wrote: > > Yes, the operator tags are the same when it is the same institution - the > colleges are independent institutions, part of the larger federation. This > is part of the complexity of this. > > I'm not arguing I don't want to change anything, just that there's too > much gratuitous change which breaks real, existing products because of > hypothetical futures.The wiki analogy is wrong here I think - that's the > content. It's much more an API, as I think you were essentially agreeing, > and people go to great lengths to try to maintain backward compatibility, > only deprecating things when they absolutely have to. > > And it's not so much me not wanting to change things, of course change > happens, it's random, arbitrary, incompatible change that is such a problem > to deal with. Dan's not arguing for that, and I've already said I'll look > at it and see what's involved. But not today! > > > > On Fri, 22 May 2015 at 14:49 Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 22 May 2015 at 14:27, David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote: >> > Andy, the operator tags are all the same, not the building names. >> >> No, they really aren't. >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/148247775 - "Churchill College >> (University of Cambridge)" >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/12861651 - "University of Cambridge" >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/98523431 - "Clare College (University >> of Cambridge)" >> >> > But also the assertion "within a few dozen miles" is wrong, as for >> > Nottingham in China. >> >> Read what I said, please: >> >> >> If there were two objects tagged as universities with >> >> identical names within a few dozen miles, I could make a guess they >> >> are the same university and write some rendering rules to suit. >> >> I make no assertion that all parts of the same university are within a >> dozen miles. >> >> I hope you realise that your tagging (using tags that imply 1200 >> different universities) is causing problems, and think "what could I >> do to help other people" rather than "I don't want to change >> anything". >> >> Thanks, >> Andy >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing > listTalk-GB@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > > ------------------------------ > [image: Avast logo] <http://www.avast.com/> > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com > >
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