On 02/01/16 15:24, Dave F. wrote: > On 02/01/2016 12:51, Brian Prangle wrote: >> That gives a total of 32,318 schools. Taginfo shows 27,191 schools >> which is 84.1% coverage in OSM. However 6,348 are represented as >> nodes only. It would be great to have these as polygons and >> associated buildings. It would also be great to have close to 100% >> coverage. >> >> This data comes from a cursory web search. If anyone has better or >> newer data, it's welcome. >> > > From experience I would say schools are the entities that are most > likely to be mapped with duplicating nodes & polygons, so I'm unsure > if those numbers are truly representative. I've even noticed that > individual school buildings are occasionally tagged as amenity=school > causing a similar problem to Cambridge University.. > > The boundary polygon should include not only the buildings & > playgrounds, but recreation grounds/sports pitches > > --- Local school here (Denbighshire, Wales) has been shown as a boundary polygon with tag amenity=school and the main school building is a polygon within the boundary tagged as building=school. Both polygons have a name tag which is the same (Ysgol Hiraddug).
Is this the right way to tag? -- Dr Bogumil N Zaba _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
