[Talk-GB] Grounds of Places of Worshiip when not Graveyards

[sk53.osm]

Exactly why OS Street View should only be used as a guide, not gospel.


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:21 AM, OpenStreetmap HADW <osmhadw at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 28 August 2013 09:50, sk53.osm <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > new-fangled expensive wedding licences. Or telling my local vicar and his
> > wife that they live in a place of worship.
>
> That does rather assume the right building has been marked!  I've just
> come across a case where the OS have marked the church hall and left
> the church as an ordinary building.  Whilst I mapped it using only the
> initial sighting on the ground, and OS OpenData (ignoring their PW),
> subsequently checking with other resources, they seem to have thought
> the lift motor room, for the hall, was a tower (Pathfinder Series) and
> missed the small spire on the church itself, even though the church is
> the larger, and more impressive, building.  (I will recheck it on the
> ground, but nothing so far seems to contradict my initial mapping.)
>
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