[Talk-GB] 2016 first quarterly project:Schools

[Bogus Zaba]

Thanks. That makes sense and avoids the name duplication.


On 03/01/16 14:31, SK53 wrote:
> Generally I will place the name tag on the school grounds and not on
> the buildings. This allows individual buildings to be given names, if
> they have them: e.g., Science Block, Nursery.
>
> A couple of complications:
>
>   * Campus sites: several schools share facilities, particularly
>     playing fields. The most complex one I know of is in Northwich
>     <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/53.2470/-2.5336>. The shared
>     playing fields are mapped as leisure=recreation_ground with the
>     individual schools now being mapped as polygons, but sometimes it
>     is difficult without good local knowledge to separate out distinct
>     institutions.
>   * School Recreation Ground also available out of school hour, either
>     as a local rec., or in association with a sports centre co-located
>     with the school. In this case I think it can be left to the
>     mapper's discretion as to whether the school polygon includes the
>     playing field or not.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> On 3 January 2016 at 13:40, Bogus Zaba <bogsub at bogzab.plus.com
> <mailto:bogsub at bogzab.plus.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/01/16 15:24, Dave F. wrote:
>     > On 02/01/2016 12:51, Brian Prangle wrote:
>     >> That gives a total of 32,318 schools. Taginfo shows 27,191 schools
>     >> which is 84.1% coverage in OSM. However 6,348 are represented as
>     >> nodes only. It would be great to have these as polygons and
>     >> associated buildings. It would also be great to have close to 100%
>     >> coverage.
>     >>
>     >> This data comes from a cursory web search. If anyone has better or
>     >> newer data, it's welcome.
>     >>
>     >
>     > From experience I would say schools are the entities that are most
>     > likely to be mapped with duplicating nodes & polygons, so I'm unsure
>     > if those numbers are truly representative. I've even noticed that
>     > individual school buildings are occasionally tagged as
>     amenity=school
>     > causing a similar problem to Cambridge University..
>     >
>     > The boundary polygon should include not only the buildings &
>     > playgrounds, but recreation grounds/sports pitches
>     >
>     > ---
>     Local school here (Denbighshire, Wales) has been shown as a boundary
>     polygon with tag amenity=school and the main school building is a
>     polygon within the boundary tagged as building=school. Both polygons
>     have a name tag which is the same (Ysgol Hiraddug).
>
>     Is this the right way to tag?
>
>     --
>     Dr Bogumil N Zaba
>
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