[Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

A couple of areas where I think we could improve on our tagging to
help data users:

* I think it would be useful if we had a machine-readable way to tag
an amenity=school area that is actually a site shared between two or
more individual schools. In this case, while the area will probably be
tagged amenity=school, it doesn't actually correspond to an individual
school, and data uses should expect additional amenity=school objects
for the individual schools within it. Maybe something like
school=shared_site. My tools could then ignore such objects for the
purposes of matching to official data.

* I think it would be useful if we had a machine-readable way to tag a
school site that isn't the main site for that particular school. This
would let data-users know that the school object isn't a separate
school, but is part of another school that they should expect to find
another amenity=school object for. This would also help my tools as
they could then check that there is only one main site for each
official school and flag up errors where this is not the case. Any
matching distance errors could also be downgraded on non-main sites.
I'm not sure how best to tag this though. main_site=no,
additional_site=yes, ... ?

Best wishes,

Robert.

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Robert Whittaker