[Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

[Stuart Reynolds]

…oh, and if the name matching could be tolerant to “&” and “and", that would be brilliant, too. It’s not a biggie, because I’m getting matched against the Edubase reference, but the names are otherwise the same and I’m using & for brevity.

Thanks.
Stuart

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Stuart Reynolds
for traveline south east & anglia

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> On 12 Feb 2016, at 09:51, Stuart Reynolds <stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> +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
> for traveline south east & anglia
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> m: +44 7788 106165
> skype: stuartjreynolds
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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.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Robert Whittaker
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