[Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

[Andy Townsend]

On 04/02/2020 15:37, Peter Neale via Talk-GB wrote:
> >There isn't, I'm afraid.. it's a right hotchpotch
>
> IMHO, it would be a waste of time, if you tried to create a single 
> area object (do I mean "closed way"?) to be the university.  That 
> would just be most of the city centre.
>
> The University is a collection of colleges, so could be a relation... 
>  ...except that each college is probably in several buildings and they 
> may not be in a contiguous area, so each college might have to be a 
> relation of buildings.  So you would have a hierarchy of relations.
>
>
... or, if the general feeling is to go ahead with this change, just add 
a node in the vicinity of the Senate House / St Mary's Church for it.  
It'd be no less wrong.

By the way, there is at least one "sensibly mapped" university in Cambridge:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/3987047

Best Regards,

Andy



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