Yes there is inconsistent use of place=square, in particular for _unnamed_
objects.
As the place=* key is used to indicate that a particular location is known by a
particular name,
a place=* tag without a name is fundamentally wrong.
(As the world is not black and white, there might be exceptions.)
In Germany alone I found >600 such taggings, and all I probed were:
1. not squares as in the definition, but small and insignificant paved surfaces, like a round piece
of footway in a park, the service yard of a fire station, or similar.
2. they were all added by the iD editor, typically since 2018.
Thus my assumption is that place=square is suggested in an iD preset to
unsuitable features.
Could somebody with sufficient iD insight check what that preset suggests, and why it does not ask
for names?
Further I recommend that everybody checks their area for place=square _without a name_, evaluate
what it is and adjust the tagging. This can not (!) be done mechanically, besides the issues with
mechanical edits, because the correct tagging will differ (e.g. highway=service + area=yes; or
highway=footway + area=yes), or the tag was correct indeed and the name has been forgotten.
Query for unnamed square in a bounding box: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/ROw
I also suggest to update wiki descriptions of place=* tags, upgrading the "name=*" from "useful
combination" to "required", and add that to validators.
tom
On 21.03.2020 01:32, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
A few of us have been updating the Tag:place=square page, and Square:
Unfortunately, this tag has been used rather inconsistently around the
world, often for any feature that includes the word "square" or a
translation of that word, or which might be considered similar in the
local language.
Some poorly mapped examples are shown on github:
*https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/4043#issuecomment-593045858
*
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/4043#issuecomment-593046473
*
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/4043#issuecomment-593046673
Check if any of the place=square features in your area should instead
be junction=yes (for a named street intersection or road junction) or
leisure=park or place=neighborhood.
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