Re: [Talk-us] Someone from Boston, MA? (off topic - Boston hotel name / address trivia)
>> This is one of those skyscrapers with a vanity "street" address with >> no such street. >> (To confuse matters further, there is also a Copley Place Hotel whose >> address is NOT Copley Place!) > Apparently there are even two such hotels. I should clarify slightly, not that it really matters. "Copley Place" is an invented name for the new mall/office/hotel development over the Turnpike air-rights, punning on / borrowing from an old place name, "Copley Square", which is nearby and is associated with class. Two of the four sides of Copley Square are the Boston Public Library formal entrance and Trinity Church. The "Westin Copley Place" was part of the Copley Place mall/office development, is connected by air-bridge, to same, but uses a real street address (10 Huntington Ave). The "Marriott Copley Place" is actually in the Copley Place towers (not sure if it's tower 1 or 2?) but uses 110 Huntington Ave as its business address, go figure. Nearby, the former "Copley Plaza Hotel", now "Fairmont Copley Plaza" is actually on Copley Square, while the "Copley Square Hotel" confusingly is not, it's up a side street, 47 Huntington (with side entrance on Exeter St connecting to Copley Square's plaza; 2nd oldest in Boston). ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Someone from Boston, MA?
Thanks, this was quite helpful. * Bill Ricker [190430 05:47]: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:12 PM Kevin Kenny wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:01 PM Kevin Kenny wrote: >>> I'm not a Bostonian, but I've been to Copley Place. >>> Copley Place is a named building: >>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/240501783 > This local Bostonian concurs. > This is one of those skyscrapers with a vanity "street" address with > no such street. > (To confuse matters further, there is also a Copley Place Hotel whose > address is NOT Copley Place!) Apparently there are even two such hotels. >> more information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copley_Place - the >> building complex, in addition to the shopping mall, has office >> buildings (tenants include the German and Canadian consulates, on the >> fourth and fifth floors respectively of tower 3), hotels and a parking >> garage, all connected. > (and all-weather connections to adjacent malls and hotels too, and to > two T (metro) lines and Amtrak rail.) > (used to have a Cinema, but iirc it got consolidated out of existence?) >> I'm not familiar enough with indoor mapping to be able to direct you >> how to map a suite within the towers. > A Consulate might prefer we not map the interior access? > That level of detail is fine for retail but ... government entities > can attract untoward attention. I have no clue of indoor mapping myself, so I just placed two nodes in what I estimated to be the rough location of tower 3 and tagged them as the Canadian and German consulates. Greetings, Wolfgang ( lyx @ osm ) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Someone from Boston, MA?
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:12 PM Kevin Kenny wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:01 PM Kevin Kenny wrote: > > I'm not a Bostonian, but I've been to Copley Place. > > Copley Place is a named building: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/240501783 This local Bostonian concurs. This is one of those skyscrapers with a vanity "street" address with no such street. (To confuse matters further, there is also a Copley Place Hotel whose address is NOT Copley Place!) > more information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copley_Place - the > building complex, in addition to the shopping mall, has office > buildings (tenants include the German and Canadian consulates, on the > fourth and fifth floors respectively of tower 3), hotels and a parking > garage, all connected. (and all-weather connections to adjacent malls and hotels too, and to two T (metro) lines and Amtrak rail.) (used to have a Cinema, but iirc it got consolidated out of existence?) > I'm not familiar enough with indoor mapping to be able to direct you > how to map a suite within the towers. A Consulate might prefer we not map the interior access? That level of detail is fine for retail but ... government entities can attract untoward attention. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Someone from Boston, MA?
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:01 PM Kevin Kenny wrote: > I'm not a Bostonian, but I've been to Copley Place. > Copley Place is a named building: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/240501783 more information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copley_Place - the building complex, in addition to the shopping mall, has office buildings (tenants include the German and Canadian consulates, on the fourth and fifth floors respectively of tower 3), hotels and a parking garage, all connected. There's a detailed plan of the first few levels at https://www.simon.com/mall/copley-place/map#/ - the menu at upper right will let you select the levels, and the entrances to the towers are on 'Sky Level'. I'm not familiar enough with indoor mapping to be able to direct you how to map a suite within the towers. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Someone from Boston, MA?
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:40 PM Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > I tried to add the German Consulate General in Boston, MA, but could not > find the address "Three Copley Place, Boston, MA 02116" in > our data. That place is apparently somewhere near Boston University. > Anyone local who could check if this is a missing street name in our > data? > > consulate website: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/240501783 I'm not a Bostonian, but I've been to Copley Place. Copley Place is a named building: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/240501783 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Someone from Boston, MA?
Hi, I tried to add the German Consulate General in Boston, MA, but could not find the address "Three Copley Place, Boston, MA 02116" in our data. That place is apparently somewhere near Boston University. Anyone local who could check if this is a missing street name in our data? consulate website: https://www.germany.info/us-en/embassy-consulates/boston Greetings, Wolfgang ( lyx @ osm ) ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
