[Talk-GB] Historic England - tagging guidelines - can we agree on the English usage

[Tony Shield]

Hi Robert

I'll use

ref:GB:nhle=12345
for the reasons you have stated.
Tony

On 15/08/2021 14:30, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 12:23, Tony Shield <tonyosm9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The agreed basis is
> [snip]
>> ref:GB:he=12345
>> ref:GB:hs=LB2345
>> ref:GB:cadw=34567
>> ref:GB:niea=55643
> As I think I've mentioned before, I would very much prefer the final
> part of the tag name to refer to the dataset/database rather than the
> dataset owner. I think this makes more sense semantically. It's also
> likely that some organisations will maintain multiple datasets, and we
> would need to distinguish between those. I don't know about the other
> counties, but for listed buildings in England, the dataset is the
> National Heritage List for England [1], which I'd probably abbreviate
> to NHLE. Hence, I'd go for ref:GB:nhle=12345.
>
> Robert.
>
> [1] https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/
>