Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

[Brian Prangle]

I don't think we should worry about getting a standard for this. I think
our main task is to extend the data and clean it up as far as we can. Then
we can use the name anomalies to try and get the relevant community (i.e
the schools themselves) to add the correct name - which will be the one
THEY prefer from all the official variants

Regards

Brian

On 17 January 2016 at 20:42, Ed Loach  wrote:

> So, should we be using the full school name or abbreviating 'church of
> england voluntary aided' to CEVA as they do on the school pullovers?
> Similar questions for other variations - I've seen CE, CoE, C of E for
> example.
>
> I've been leaving existing names in the main (occasionally adding VC or
> VA) in the hope these are from surveys and are what are on the sign, but
> some names are sourced from fhrs or even os opendata. Is the DfE name
> better in these cases?
>
> Ed
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Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

[Chris Hill]

On 18/01/16 06:50, Marc Gemis wrote:

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Lester Caine  wrote:

On 17/01/16 20:42, Ed Loach wrote:

So, should we be using the full school name or abbreviating 'church of
england voluntary aided' to CEVA as they do on the school pullovers?
Similar questions for other variations - I've seen CE, CoE, C of E for
example.

I've been changing them to match what is listed on edubase for the main
name, and retaining an alt_name sometimes.

Isn't this a "mechanical" edit ? Shouldn't we list what is on the
ground, .i.e. the name that can be found on the entrance in the name
field ?
I would put CEVA in short_name.

just my .5 cents



+1

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[Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

[Ed Loach]

So, should we be using the full school name or abbreviating 'church of
england voluntary aided' to CEVA as they do on the school pullovers?
Similar questions for other variations - I've seen CE, CoE, C of E for
example.

I've been leaving existing names in the main (occasionally adding VC or VA)
in the hope these are from surveys and are what are on the sign, but some
names are sourced from fhrs or even os opendata. Is the DfE name better in
these cases?

Ed
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Re: [Talk-GB] Abbreviations in OSM and schools

[Lester Caine]

On 17/01/16 20:42, Ed Loach wrote:
> So, should we be using the full school name or abbreviating 'church of
> england voluntary aided' to CEVA as they do on the school pullovers?
> Similar questions for other variations - I've seen CE, CoE, C of E for
> example.

I've been changing them to match what is listed on edubase for the main
name, and retaining an alt_name sometimes.

> I've been leaving existing names in the main (occasionally adding VC or
> VA) in the hope these are from surveys and are what are on the sign, but
> some names are sourced from fhrs or even os opendata. Is the DfE name
> better in these cases?

The one thing I've been adding is the schools website where available.
That often uses a different name to either of the format used on edubase
or originally, so just what is right? Since the edubase name equates to
the 'registered' name that should be taken as official, and many of the
missing schools simply have a large discrepancy in names, but which any
human would understand as matching ;)

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