I take it that these names are used by Nominatim to assist with search. I know it's another form of tagging-for-the-renderer, but do you know how/whether changes affect it?
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:31 PM Russ Garrett <r...@garrett.co.uk> wrote: > Hi folks, > > By way of lockdown procrastination, I started looking at place nodes > in London. The main things which were annoying me are: > > * The presence of a few archaic place names which were presumably > derived from NPE or other historic maps but are generally out of use > now. > * A surprisingly large number of place names present in OS StreetView > are unmapped on OSM. > * Most places in London are tagged as place=suburb, regardless of > their size/importance. This issue especially is annoying me quite a > lot now I've started noticing it. > > I started demoting some place=suburbs to place=quarter, and promoting > one or two of them to place=town (as this seems to be almost > universally used as the next level up from suburb in London), when it > was pointed out that it's probably worth discussing this. > > These place tags are quite subjective, especially because they > frequently get used for reasons which don't really tie in with their > name, and wiki is pretty vague about their definition, so I don't > think we can avoid some level of tagging for the renderer here. > > I think it would be useful to document which of these tags we want to > use in London, and ideally some kind of heuristic for where to use > them. > > I've generated a list of all place nodes within Greater London and the > City, by type: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Russss/London_Place_Nodes > > Cheers, > > -- > Russ Garrett > r...@garrett.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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