Hi folks, By way of lockdown procrastination, I started looking at place nodes in London. The main things which were annoying me are:
* The presence of a few archaic place names which were presumably derived from NPE or other historic maps but are generally out of use now. * A surprisingly large number of place names present in OS StreetView are unmapped on OSM. * Most places in London are tagged as place=suburb, regardless of their size/importance. This issue especially is annoying me quite a lot now I've started noticing it. I started demoting some place=suburbs to place=quarter, and promoting one or two of them to place=town (as this seems to be almost universally used as the next level up from suburb in London), when it was pointed out that it's probably worth discussing this. These place tags are quite subjective, especially because they frequently get used for reasons which don't really tie in with their name, and wiki is pretty vague about their definition, so I don't think we can avoid some level of tagging for the renderer here. I think it would be useful to document which of these tags we want to use in London, and ideally some kind of heuristic for where to use them. I've generated a list of all place nodes within Greater London and the City, by type: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Russss/London_Place_Nodes Cheers, -- Russ Garrett r...@garrett.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
