Generally I will place the name tag on the school grounds and not on the buildings. This allows individual buildings to be given names, if they have them: e.g., Science Block, Nursery.
A couple of complications: - Campus sites: several schools share facilities, particularly playing fields. The most complex one I know of is in Northwich <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/53.2470/-2.5336>. The shared playing fields are mapped as leisure=recreation_ground with the individual schools now being mapped as polygons, but sometimes it is difficult without good local knowledge to separate out distinct institutions. - School Recreation Ground also available out of school hour, either as a local rec., or in association with a sports centre co-located with the school. In this case I think it can be left to the mapper's discretion as to whether the school polygon includes the playing field or not. Jerry On 3 January 2016 at 13:40, Bogus Zaba <bog...@bogzab.plus.com> wrote: > On 02/01/16 15:24, Dave F. wrote: > > On 02/01/2016 12:51, Brian Prangle wrote: > >> That gives a total of 32,318 schools. Taginfo shows 27,191 schools > >> which is 84.1% coverage in OSM. However 6,348 are represented as > >> nodes only. It would be great to have these as polygons and > >> associated buildings. It would also be great to have close to 100% > >> coverage. > >> > >> This data comes from a cursory web search. If anyone has better or > >> newer data, it's welcome. > >> > > > > From experience I would say schools are the entities that are most > > likely to be mapped with duplicating nodes & polygons, so I'm unsure > > if those numbers are truly representative. I've even noticed that > > individual school buildings are occasionally tagged as amenity=school > > causing a similar problem to Cambridge University.. > > > > The boundary polygon should include not only the buildings & > > playgrounds, but recreation grounds/sports pitches > > > > --- > Local school here (Denbighshire, Wales) has been shown as a boundary > polygon with tag amenity=school and the main school building is a > polygon within the boundary tagged as building=school. Both polygons > have a name tag which is the same (Ysgol Hiraddug). > > Is this the right way to tag? > > -- > Dr Bogumil N Zaba > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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