[Talk-GB] Village sign tagging schema

[SK53]

 I presume we are predominantly talking about decorative signs, usually
located on a village green or close to the village centre. Although
man_made=village_sign has about 20 times the usage,  tourism=village_sign
(35ish uses) might capture the purpose better for the decorative ones.
These latter are concentrated in Suffolk & Kent, suspect that I copied the
tags for the West Hallam
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5536182334/history> one (Geograph
<https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/432332>) having noted how they were
mapped in Suffolk. Oddly man_made=village_sign is also distinctly local
with over 5/6ths located in Norfolk, and most last touched by a single
user. In this case I don't think absolute numbers indicate a general
consensus.

I think the traffic_sign tags pertain more to places where urban limits
reflect changes in maximum speeds (France, Poland) or other jurisdictional
limits (friends who had a drunken argument in Key West were run to the city
limits by the sheriff). I think it's relatively uncommon for these to be
one and the same in the UK, although I can think of one sign which exactly
matches this premise, at Pinkneys Green
<https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5219453>, Berkshire. In the past
Pinkneys Drive linked two national speed limit A-roads, and I'm not sure
there was originally a limit through the hamlet. Even after the A423 was
replaced by a dual carriageway it was a useful cut-through to the A308 and
there was definitely an issue with speeding, much reduced as the 40 limit
on the A308 was moved out towards the Golden Ball.

Jerry



On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 at 12:41, John Aldridge <jpsa at cantab.net> wrote:

> Village signs seem to be only patchily tagged, so I'm considering
> filling in a few round here. Before I do, though, I wanted to ask
> whether there was a consensus tagging schema (or whether we could agree
> one if not)...
>
>
> I've found quite a few tagged with
>     man_made=village_sign
> though this value is not listed in
>      https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:man%20made?uselang=en
>
> Many have
>     name=*
> which seems reasonable, though I do slightly worry that it might end up
> with villages being labelled on the map with their name several times!
>
> Some also have
>     tourism=artwork
> though perhaps this is a bodge to get something to render on the default
> map? See e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6341816268
>
> There are also a selection of other tags
>     colour=*
>     material=* (typically "wood" or "metal")
>     description=*
> and probably others, I haven't done an exhaustive search.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> John
>
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