[Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net
Sat Feb 8 14:29:52 UTC 2020


Dave F wrote:
> CU wanted a new site map. They paid someone to provide it for 
> them. Which is fine, but please don't suggest they're 
> contributions are superior to those of any anybody else. 
> Especially when they decided to knowingly go against accepted 
> tagging procedures.

I think that's a little harsh - David Earl mapped the university in the
_very_ early days of the project. There's stuff there dating back to
2006/2007. Cambridge was the first place to be mapped in great detail in the
UK - even in 2011 I remember giving a talk at Oxford Geek Nights where I
could still hold Cambridge up as an exemplar of how to do it. You can
imagine how well that went down in Oxford. ;)

So it wasn't really "going against accepted tagging procedures", because
tagging was still very much evolving back then. Fully in agreement that the
time has come to update the tagging, but that's just a result of OSM
changing - there's no need for any rancour against the original mappers.

Richard



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