[Talk-GB] Still too many universities in Cambridge

[Phillip Barnett]

And in fact David Earl deserves recognition for pretty much single-handedly doing the original basic mapping of Cambridge at street level. (I did about 1% of it at the time, but had the excuse of very young children taking my attention)

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> On 8 Feb 2020, at 14:30, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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