[Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

[Stuart Reynolds]

+1 for school=shared_site, or perhaps (to keep it within the amenity tag) amenity=campus or something like that. I’m not fussy about the actual tag value.

As a side issue, does your tool currently ignore disused:amenity=* tags? If not, can it please. Thanks.

Regards,
Stuart




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Stuart Reynolds
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> On 12 Feb 2016, at 09:11, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) <robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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