On 26/01/16 21:20, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > BTW: The amenity=college page on the wiki [1] is lacking a lot. Could do > with some extra details (rather than simply linking to wikipedia) and > it's context needs expanding beyond just the UK. Any takers? > > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcollege
Actually the way that the UK higher education structure has changed it's possibly pointless today bothering with 'college' as a category. Many 'Technical Colleges' now call themselves Universities, and secondary education now extends into the sixth form college sector. When a University includes 'Hairdressing' or 'Car mechanics' then it's degree status looks a little suspect? Even the Wikipedia article is tagged as 'Outdated' for 'Further Education' :) That said, The remaining college sector does seem to be consolidating with a well defined 'non-university' prospectus and the EduBase2 categories for University and College is probably an ideal division to follow, and I was tagging sixth form colleges as College rather than School following that tagging. The question perhaps is should the fancy 'Academy' Secondary school be tagged separately at all? Since these do not have to include that in their titles ... The tricky bit being the 16-19 age range campuses. Of cause once the URN is included one can look up the secondary data anyway. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
