[Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

On 12 February 2016 at 09:51, Stuart Reynolds
<stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk> wrote:
> As a side issue, does your tool currently ignore disused:amenity=* tags? If not, can it please. Thanks.

The tool only fetches amenity=school and amenity=college objects, so
disused:amenity=* (and other similar variants) will always be ignored.

On 12 February 2016 at 10:07, Stuart Reynolds
<stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk> wrote:
> …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.

The name matching (which currently just checks the two strings for an
exact match) isn't actually used for much. The only place it's used is
when looking for a geographically close match between an OSM object
and an official location, a pair with an exact name match will be
preferred over other closer matches. Matches based on ref:* tags
always take priority, and if there's no exact name match, then the
nearest unmatched object with 1km is chosen.

That said, it's on my To Do list to look at doing a fuzzy name
comparison -- probably by deleting common words / phrases (School,
Academy, CofE, Voluntary Controlled, and, &, etc) from both strings
and then seeing if what's left is equal. This would probably be used
to flag up possible errors in matched pairs (either in the OSM name or
the matching), rather than as a way to get better matching in the
first place. The latter can always be solved by adding the ref:*
values to OSM.

Best wishes,

Robert.

-- 
Robert Whittaker