[Talk-GB] Documenting tagging practice for place nodes in London

Alan Mackie aamackie at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 12:44:10 UTC 2020


On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:56, Russ Garrett <russ at garrett.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:20, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Quite a lot of stuff of the placename info on OS StreetView probably
> > _shouldn't_ be in OSM.  Leaving aside farm and house names, the where I
> > used to live in Derbyshire is according to OS StreetView composed of 5
> > different "villages".  It's actually either 1 or 2, depending on who you
> > ask.  It's probably less of an issue in London (less space for
> > extraneous names), though.
>
> I have noticed a few cases, especially in areas of London I know very
> well, where OS shows an archaic name which isn't really in general
> use. This gets a bit tricky because there's not really a way of
> signalling to other mappers that a place name isn't in use based on
> local knowledge. Obviously local knowledge is best here but we
> probably don't have mappers with good local knowledge of all the
> various corners of London, and I'm pretty sure that there are areas of
> London where the area names have never been adequately mapped (which
> is why I started this thread). So I'm not sure how best to solve that
> conundrum.
>
> Out of date names might show up less in addr:? Of course then you need
full addresses rather than street, number and "leave it to the algo".
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