And in fact David Earl deserves recognition for pretty much single-handedly doing the original basic mapping of Cambridge at street level. (I did about 1% of it at the time, but had the excuse of very young children taking my attention)
Sent from my iPhone > On 8 Feb 2020, at 14:30, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dave F wrote: >> CU wanted a new site map. They paid someone to provide it for >> them. Which is fine, but please don't suggest they're >> contributions are superior to those of any anybody else. >> Especially when they decided to knowingly go against accepted >> tagging procedures. > > I think that's a little harsh - David Earl mapped the university in the > _very_ early days of the project. There's stuff there dating back to > 2006/2007. Cambridge was the first place to be mapped in great detail in the > UK - even in 2011 I remember giving a talk at Oxford Geek Nights where I > could still hold Cambridge up as an exemplar of how to do it. You can > imagine how well that went down in Oxford. ;) > > So it wasn't really "going against accepted tagging procedures", because > tagging was still very much evolving back then. Fully in agreement that the > time has come to update the tagging, but that's just a result of OSM > changing - there's no need for any rancour against the original mappers. > > Richard > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Great-Britain-f5372682.html > > _______________________________________________ > 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
