<div dir="ltr">Oh, just another random observation: extending the notion of 'square' to the buildings that front upon it is not limited to New England. Moreover, cursed Albion also has 'town squares' that are green space.<div><br>One example: Berkeley Square in London. In form, it's a public garden, but even the English designate it a town square. As I understand it, an Englishman would not raise eyebrows at a sentence: "Winston Churchill, as a child, lived in Berkeley Square. The Churchills' house, № 48, is the one entirely residential building remaining there; the rest of the buildings are all offices of financial concerns, much like the rest of Mayfair." The only thing there that would sound odd to American ears is that the English speak of living 'in' a street, while the Americans speak of living 'on' a street.<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 6:17 PM Volker Schmidt <<a href="mailto:voschix@gmail.com">voschix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><table cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><br></td><td colspan="2"><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
>From these 2 examples how squares (I keep using this word although I am not sure it actually applies) are classified (often in names), which is the approach you had thought about?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I thought maybe the bast way to go ahead is to reverse our sequence:</div><div><br></div><div>1) collect a good number of examples of potential squares in different countries (could be done in the discussion page of the Wiki's "square" page) and for each one let's have: <br></div><ul><li>location (item in OSM or at least coordinates)</li><li>reference (e.g. Wikipedia)<br></li><li>type of square in in the local language (possibly with an explanation in English what that type means)</li><li>name (and translation to English if the name can be translated)</li><li>foto</li><li>description</li><li>any annotation you feel useful</li></ul><div>2) once completed we look at the collection and try to see whether we need <br></div><div style="margin-left:40px">a) a new tag in addition to place=square</div><div style="margin-left:40px">or</div><div style="margin-left:40px">b) we can tag all examples with place=square and the addition of <i>existing </i>specifyeing keys</div><div style="margin-left:40px">or</div><div style="margin-left:40px">c) we can tag all examples with place=square but with the addition of new square type keys</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Note that this collection will be useful in any case for illustrating the wiki, independently of the approach.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><u>Here is an example:</u></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<ul><li>location (item in OSM or at least coordinates): <br></li></ul></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6029646" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6029646</a></div><div>reference:</div><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwigskirche#Ludwigsplatz" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwigskirche#Ludwigsplatz</a></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><ul><li>type of square in in the local language (possibly with an explanation in English what that type means): <br></li></ul></div><div style="margin-left:40px">Stadtplatz (historisch), (historical) town square<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><ul><li>name (and translation to English if the name can be translated)</li></ul></div></div><div style="margin-left:40px">Ludwigsplatz - Ludwig's square (named after the protestant church on the square, which in turn is named after <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_(Nassau-Saarbr%C3%BCcken)" target="_blank">Ludwig, count of Nassau-Sarbruecken</a>)<br></div><div>images: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Saarbr%C3%BCcken%2C_die_H%C3%A4user_Am_Ludwigsplatz_14-14a.jpg" target="_blank">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Saarbr%C3%BCcken%2C_die_H%C3%A4user_Am_Ludwigsplatz_14-14a.jpg</a></div><div><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="https://www.saarland.de/bilder/res_stk/Panorama_SB-Ludwigsplatz_rdax_800x200.jpg4" target="_blank">https://www.saarland.de/bilder/res_stk/Panorama_SB-Ludwigsplatz_rdax_800x200.jpg4</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><ul><li>description</li></ul></div><div style="margin-left:40px">originally designed as the centre of the town in the 18 century, today used partially for a periodic open-air market, partially as pedestrian area, some large trees, the residential streets on three sides and the baroque palaces are part of the architectonic ensemble<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><ul><li>any annotation you feel useful</li></ul></div><div style="margin-left:40px">at present not tagged as place=square, but I would tag it as such</div><div style="margin-left:40px"><br></div>Volker<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin</div>