On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 13:21 +0100, SK53 wrote: > This morning I came across a name tag on a power line. I believe this > is now quite a common practice (> 8% of lines in an 3-month old > data-set). Personally I deplore it: > * I have never found a convenient sign on a power line giving > it's name. > * It is not derived from ground-truth. > * It is not verifiable by other mappers. > * It's tagging for the renderer (which may not work once the > rules for "name" have been revised in CartoCSS) > * The names appear not to be names, but descriptions, we have a > suitable key for this, oddly enough called "description". > * Some name tags include "National Grid". we have a perfectly > suitable tag called "operator" for this information. > * I very much doubt that National Grid use names of this type > for sending out line engineers. > * Most of these names just appear to describe the two end points > of the line. OSM is a geo-database this information can be > found by suitable queries. > > Given that adding non-verifiable names seems to de rigueur I propose > that in homage to Edmund Crispin I propose we name a random selection > of power=pylon as "The Pisser". > > More seriously I suggest that these name tags be removed and replaced > by suitable use of "operator" and "description". > > Jerry > > P.S. I am not wholly against using "name" for what are in reality > "description", but such usage MUST relate to something which can be > verified on the ground. Brownfield sites which may still be visible as > buildings on Bing come to mind: in the form name="former XYZ Factory". > However, perhaps we should discuss this type of usage too.
+1 I agree, a lot of things seem to be acquiring names for no reason, and are just descriptions. We had the saga of motorway names a while back and many railways seem to have names added in a similar vain, the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line, which has probably been derived from looking at the names of the places it connects. The Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford line, surely if it has a name, its the West Coast Mainline? Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
