On 22 May 2015 at 11:54, David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> 2. What is a University anyway? I'll not explore the concept of a university too far, since very little about groups of people is relevant to OSM! However, if you were to say "What is the physical aspect of a university" then I would say it's a collection of one or more places - usually parcels of ground, often with buildings. In OpenStreetMap we tend to represent collections of entities with a relation, unless the tagging of each part is substantially the same (i.e. no need for a relation when you split a road and add bridge tags. I note that the amenity=university tag is used mostly (exclusively?) on buildings, and I think that this is incorrect. I would expect a way tagged amenity=university to indicate that everything within that way - buildings, gardens, carparks etc - was part of the university. So we can probably retag things to cut down the numbers by using perimeters around particular areas. > 4. Constantly changing tags creates a moving target that is extremely hard > to maintain for data consumers, and is a major off-putting factor in using > OSM, especially if you can't manage the process because things just change > under your feet. Yep, I certainly agree with you there. But when things are tagged 'incorrectly' (fsvo incorrect, of course), then we need to change the tagging. > My view is that tags are merely > tokens and too much is read into the words. Yep, I've gone on at length about this with people wishing to change the order of the characters within a particular tag - it's infuriating. > bear in mind this has a > direct financial cost to me as a freelancer supporting the University map, > and that the University has been a big benefactor for OSM, even though they > get the rest of the map back in return, so you really don't want to give > them a slap in the face for doing so. Be careful. To say that we need to support your old tagging scheme indefinitely would seem to be a slap in the face for all our volunteers, now and in the future. Thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
