<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 22. Mar 2020, at 15:13, Paul Allen <pla16021@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ummmmm, the name is everything? So if it's named "Foo square" it's a place=square</div><div>even if it's not a place for people to congregate and it's not square? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>yes. <div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div> Take a look</div><div>at Finch's Square (aka Finch Square):</div><div> <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.08304&mlon=-4.65750#map=19/52.08304/-4.65750">https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.08304&mlon=-4.65750#map=19/52.08304/-4.65750</a></div><div>It's not square. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>squares can be of all shapes, triangular, rectangular, poligonal (regular or not), elliptical, round, etc.</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>As rendered there appears to be more pedestrian space than there</div><div>really is, it's basically roads with standard-size sidewalks. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>pedestrian space is not a requirement</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>It's not a place for</div><div>people to congregate and (possibly) have public functions, </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>any open space can assume public functions and used to congretate. If a sufficient number of people goes there, any space will become pedestrian </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>it's effectively the town</div><div> bus station, as can be seen here: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/UjG2pbgG1kRSBu1bA">https://goo.gl/maps/UjG2pbgG1kRSBu1bA</a><br></div><div> I wouldn't use place=square on it, even though the name is "Finch's</div><div>Square."</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>strange, why not?</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" preoffsettop="1009">So how does a mapper know when to use place=square? Because the geometry</blockquote><div>is square? They're not all perfect squares. Because it has "Square" in its name?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>yes, square or a related word that refers to an open space (as opposed to linear road/street)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>You can do a wildcard search in overpass for that, you don't need a</div><div>place=square (but you'll also get the bus station above). </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>it’s not that simple, one of the conplications is the plethora of local names and variations. </div><div>And then there would still be the question what tag to use. If you want to tag squares as a feature (i.e. one square is one OpenStreetMap element), would you suggest to use just a name?</div><div><br></div>Cheers Martin </div><div><br></div></body></html>