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

[Warin]

On 15/2/23 01:28, SK53 wrote:
> The name plates of Severn Trent infra are organised in such a way 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Severn_trent-sewage_pumping_station.jpg> 
> that deciding what is truly the name is not straightforward. The tend to
> have a descriptive term "Sewage Treatment Works", "Sewage Pumping 
> Station" in larger type above a location element: "Flaxton", "Wollaton 
> Park Charnock Avenue Playing FIelds"
> in a smaller one. It might be worth having a convention as to how to 
> treat these, as I've not added name tags to a few
>
> Incidentally, the operator:wikidata 
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503077> tag in use 
> <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/operator%3Awikidata=Q503077> 
> seems to refer to the Severn Trent holding company and not the actual 
> "Severn Trent Water" operating entity, which does not appear to have a 
> wikidata entry.


The difficulty is that the 'name' tag is seen by some as the name 
assigned by the organization and not the name seen on the premises or 
used by the locals.

The 'location element' could be entered using the tag  'branch'.

The 'name' assigned by the organization I'd suggest using the tag 
'official_name' .. usually long and not something local would use down 
the pub.

A render could chose to use the information in a search table
example
Title of amenity/landuse/whatever then list
{name},{branch},{operator},{ref},{official_name}

I would agree that most renders will not bother with anything but the 
name tag hence the problem of various 'names' being used.

>
> Jerry
>
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 10:15, 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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