[Talk-GB] Additional Tagging Suggestions for Schools

[Gregory]

[Oops, I previously sent a message from a wrong e-mail address.]

Please retain backwards compatibility when using new tags. I.e. keep the
amenity=school tag and add tags to it to clarify.

RE: shared sites
Are there examples of this where it can't be divided? A know infant and
juniors are often different parts of a building/site, but they usually have
their own reception and playground, even if that's difficult to tell from
aerial imagery if you can't see fences/walls. The infants maybe use the
juniors sports pitch at times. County Durham has actually closed a lot of
schools in the last ~5 years and opened half as many, to make Infant +
Junior schools into Primary schools.

RE: multisites / cross-sites
This would be very good, I'm surprised nothing exists (it's not just
schools). Remember amenity=school should still exist on each site because I
still want directions to say "go past the school on the right". But a
school-specific system could say "Littletown College's main
campus/reception is [here] and it has other sites [here] and [here]".

Oh, multi sites can be done with relations:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Site
I struggled to read that as it's partially to group objects on a site, but
it can be used for the flip side of grouping sites across a city.
E.g. Stuttgart University: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5294212

>From nearby a disused school used to film the police station in Inspector
George Gently,
Gregory.

On 13 February 2016 at 10:51, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> On 12/02/16 23:01, John Aldridge wrote:
> > You mean they serve the same function as not:name does for street names
> > in reducing noise from automated consistency checking? OK, I can see
> > that's useful.
> >
> >> But don't assume that the data
> >> provided by the third party are more up to date than the OSM version ;)
> >
> > But in this case of official_name I thought you were saying the
> > appropriate value was the value from edubase, so by definition it
> > couldn't be out of date there.
>
> I suspect that some of the NAMES on edubase are actually wrong as well,
> certainly for some of the academy schools, although there does seem to
> be a little more consistency NOW for adding a new entry and closing the
> old one when a schools status changes, so the logged 'official_name' on
> OSM realy is just a hook to how the match was confirmed. Now we just
> need messages from edubase when a schools reference changes :) But I am
> playing with historic stuff to see if I can create a history for each
> school from the edubase data. Very much a back burner job, but amazing
> what you can conjure up using a relational database ...
>
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