[Talk-GB] OSM should not be a database dump.

[SK53]

Just looked at a local one: 2 out of the 3 changes are entirely cosmetic:

* Removing formatting of a phone number into memorable chunks +44 std 999
9999 to +44 std 9999999
* removing "https://" from a website (probably added by some other
semi-automated edit)

Neither of these should be offered.

There are a number of apparently superfluous tags:

   - school:boarding : extremely unlikely for most state schools
   - religion=none : not very accurate as the 1944 Education Act requires
   some kind of religious element in school life (yes, honoured in the
   breach). Better not to use the tag at all except for schools with a
   specific religious ethos.
   - school:trust seems to have a lot of overlap with school:type. Probably
   best managed by operator tag

The one thing which might be useful is the ISCED values
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:isced:level>, but these have been
controversial in the past, and are complicated by changes since the scale
was introduced. In a UK context age range of pupils would probably be more
useful, or just indication of nursery, primary, secondary, sixth-form (and
combos). Note we have both min_age, max_age and school:age_range.

As usual, the author of the MapRoulette task is not visible. Although all
the tag changes are optional I think there is a tendency for participants
in challenges to be a bit gung-ho about changing everything. I do wish
these tasks were proposed here first.

Jerry

On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 13:52, Dave F via Talk-GB <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/21922
>
> There's a maproulette task to add most (all?) school specific data from
> from the Government's education database:
>
> https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk
>
> I'm failing to see what benefits this adds to OSM. As it is a
> continuously updated database by the authorities, it will always be more
> up to date than having the data within OSM. Similar to the Food Hygiene
> database, all that's required is a reference (ref:edubase) back to each
> record..
>
> Cheers
> DaveF
>
>
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