Re: [Talk-GB] University of Northampton new campus - mapper required

2018-07-13 Thread Dan S
Thank you for the prompt to give good advice, but I don't feel i can choose a single example as canonical (I don't know the extent to which there's consensus) - I hope that the general idea, that the wiki advice looks good, can suffice. Best Dan 2018-07-13 23:49 GMT+01:00 Warin

Re: [Talk-GB] University of Northampton new campus - mapper required

2018-07-13 Thread Dave F
On 13/07/2018 23:26, Dan S wrote: I hope this is not too much of a side-issue, but: one hopeful request - plase don't use amenity=university for each object in the campus, as was done for some other universities. Indeed. I wouldn't use Oxford as an example. I *definitely* wouldn't look

Re: [Talk-GB] University of Northampton new campus - mapper required

2018-07-13 Thread Warin
Rather than point as to what not to do .. it would be best to point to what to do. So where is the 'best' OSM mapped university? Use that as an example of what to do. On 14/07/18 08:26, Dan S wrote: I hope this is not too much of a side-issue, but: one hopeful request - plase don't use

Re: [Talk-GB] University of Northampton new campus - mapper required

2018-07-13 Thread Dan S
I hope this is not too much of a side-issue, but: one hopeful request - plase don't use amenity=university for each object in the campus, as was done for some other universities. I don't think UK uni tagging is yet consistent across towns, but the wiki's advice looks broadly ok imho! Cheers

Re: [Talk-GB] MapthePaths & Lancashire

2018-07-13 Thread Andrew Black
I am pondering a similar but simpler question. I would like to add a table listing each authority at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:prow_ref describing the conventions used. With a subpage if there is a lot of info such as Toby's list for Lancashire I have added the first prow_ref for

[Talk-GB] University of Northampton new campus - mapper required

2018-07-13 Thread David Earl
The University of Northampton is opening a new campus very soon between between Bedford Road and New South Bridge Road. They would like to get a detailed campus map onto OSM as soon as possible, ideally by August 1. I haven't looked but I'm assuming this would have to be a ground survey as it is