+1 for school=shared_site, or perhaps (to keep it within the amenity tag) amenity=campus or something like that. I’m not fussy about the actual tag value.
As a side issue, does your tool currently ignore disused:amenity=* tags? If not, can it please. Thanks. Regards, Stuart ------------------------------------ Stuart Reynolds for traveline south east & anglia m: +44 7788 106165 skype: stuartjreynolds > On 12 Feb 2016, at 09:11, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > A couple of areas where I think we could improve on our tagging to > help data users: > > * I think it would be useful if we had a machine-readable way to tag > an amenity=school area that is actually a site shared between two or > more individual schools. In this case, while the area will probably be > tagged amenity=school, it doesn't actually correspond to an individual > school, and data uses should expect additional amenity=school objects > for the individual schools within it. Maybe something like > school=shared_site. My tools could then ignore such objects for the > purposes of matching to official data. > > * I think it would be useful if we had a machine-readable way to tag a > school site that isn't the main site for that particular school. This > would let data-users know that the school object isn't a separate > school, but is part of another school that they should expect to find > another amenity=school object for. This would also help my tools as > they could then check that there is only one main site for each > official school and flag up errors where this is not the case. Any > matching distance errors could also be downgraded on non-main sites. > I'm not sure how best to tag this though. main_site=no, > additional_site=yes, ... ? > > Best wishes, > > Robert. > > -- > Robert Whittaker > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
