[Talk-GB] Anyone fancy a bit of mindless drudgery?

[John Aldridge]

I surveyed my local sewage works a decade ago, and used the name 
"Teversham STW". I'm 99% certain this would have been because that was 
the wording of the sign on the gate.

I just cycled down there to double check, and I see it now says 
"Teversham Water Recycling Centre" :)

John

On 14/02/2023 10:57, Andy Townsend wrote:
> I suspect that "place/STW" is just a copy and paste from the spreadsheet 
> that the original mapper used.  Handily, that formatting allows a web 
> search to find the data:
> 
> https://www.yorkshirewater.com/media/f10fpjkw/yky-bioresources-market-information-2020.xlsx
> 
> Personally, I'd have omitted the "/STW" part (likely as per the sign) 
> since that formatting appears to be just for Excel's benefit.
> 
> In that version there's no off by one error so Flaxton is at
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/54.04490/-0.96097
> 
> which is correct.  Someone was asking for the source data - perhaps 
> web.archive.org has an earlier version of Yorkshire Water's website 
> without the off-by-one error in it?
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Andy
> 
> PS: Overpass says down to 35 now: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1oyq
> 
> 
> On 14/02/2023 10:23, Philip Barnes wrote:
>> Thank you Russ
>>
>> I had assumed it was the operator, but it does illustrate perfectly 
>> why abbreviations should be expanded as you cannot assume it will be 
>> interpreted the same way by different people.
>>
>> Phil (trigpoint)
>>
>> On 14 February 2023 10:10:51 GMT, Russ Garrett <russ at garrett.co.uk> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 10:08, Philip Barnes<phil at trigpoint.me.uk>  wrote:
>>
>>         Main error is they have included (STW) in the name. This is
>>         not part of the name but the operator which was already included. 
>>
>>
>>     I suspect STW here stands for Sewage Treatment Works, not Severn Trent
>>     Water. I'd argue that it should be part of the name, but the
>>     abbreviation should be expanded.
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