[Talk-GB] Green Cabmen's Shelters in London

[Robert Skedgell]

On 06/02/2024 11:14, Kai Michael Poppe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> by chance I stumbled upon Roblondon's video [1] about the thirteen 
> remaining cabmen's shelters in London that all have been Grade II listed 
> - some of them are in use as kiosks or cafe, some seem not to be open 
> anymore, yet they remain under the supervision of the Cabmen's Shelter 
> Fund [2].
> 
> * 8 shelters have a wikidata-tag, yet there are more entries in WD that 
> refer to these shelters, so I would need to figure the missing ones out 
> and add them. As far as I've seen, the NHLE Identifier seems to exist in 
> WD as well, linking to the correct entries. Is there any point in adding 
> them to OSM as ref:GB:nhle or would that be data duplication we do not 
> need? Likewise for listed_status=Grade II and operator:heritage=Heritage 
> England?


Yes, it's worth adding heritage=2 + heritage:operator=Historic England + 
ref:GB:nhle=* + listed_status=Grade II + historic=building.

The data may well be duplicated in Wikidata, but expecting data 
consumers to supplement every PostGIS or Overpass query with a Wikidata 
query would make the data far less useful.

-- 
Robert Skedgell (rskedgell)