[Talk-GB] Village sign tagging schema

[Gregory Williams]

I think that a number of the tourism=village_sign ones in Kent will
have been added by me over the years. As Jerry mentions, these are the
decorative kind, such as:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregorywilliams/albums/72157608682306727

Gregory

On Sun, 2022-01-02 at 17:47 +0000, SK53 wrote:
> 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 one
> (Geograph) 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, 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.
> > 
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