[Talk-GB] Naming of sewage treatment works and other such infrastructure

[Andy Townsend]

On 14/02/2023 22:46, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> From my experience in the gas and electricity industry I think you're 
> overthinking it. The sites and industry at large has grown organically 
> and there is no such thing as a definitive name. Internally they adopt 
> names more because humans like to call things by a name. Although you 
> may find differences across teams and departments even in the core 
> name, before we even get on to suffixes! And I highly expect what is 
> on any sign in terms of suffixes is just coincidence and depends on 
> who ordered it and when!
>
Indeed, but at least a sign is verifiable!


>
> In summary, any "name" is more akin to what we use the description tag 
> for. I agree with Russ that it's not that useful to just name it the 
> same as the village, and like with road signs I think we should expand 
> out any suffixes (e.g. STW, SS, etc).
>
>
That doesn't need to be in the data, does it though?  We wouldn't expand 
"Derby" out to "Derby Railway Station" just in case someone somehow 
missed "railway=station" in the data on e.g. 
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#18/52.91617/-1.46364 .

With regards to sewage works etc., renderers can append e.g. "(sewage)" 
like here: 
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#19/54.08237/-1.26170 if 
they don't have a specific way of representing sewage works.

Best Regards,

Andy