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 OSM version ;) > > But in this case of official_name I thought you were saying the > appropriate value was the value from edubase, so by definition it > couldn't be out of date there.
I suspect that some of the NAMES on edubase are actually wrong as well, certainly for some of the academy schools, although there does seem to be a little more consistency NOW for adding a new entry and closing the old one when a schools status changes, so the logged 'official_name' on OSM realy is just a hook to how the match was confirmed. Now we just need messages from edubase when a schools reference changes :) But I am playing with historic stuff to see if I can create a history for each school from the edubase data. Very much a back burner job, but amazing what you can conjure up using a relational database ... -- 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
