You are confusing the administrative division of Barnstable with the place within it. There are already admin relations for the "Town of Barnstable" with city type goverment (relation/2387624) and the actual Barnstable which is on Highway 6A (relation/9529611).

Far better to use the Hyannis node as admin_centre in the relation than move the node which refers to an actual place rather than an administrative entity.

I have never referred to the location you wish Barnstable to located as anything other than Hyannis. Just checked a receipt "990 Iyannough Road *Hyannis* MA 02601", same thing.

Moving Barnstable node will break lots of applications relying on geocoding.

I have reverted this changeset as it is entirely incorrect. The locations & status of Barnstable & Hyannis have remained stable on OSM since around 2007: I'd be really surprised if you know better than everyone who has used it, or edited in the area over the past 15 years.

Reversion changeset: node/158843349.

I wouldn't call the pillars around Lincoln Cathedral chapter house building=pylon, these are flying buttresses, and I think should be called such. Nor are they buildings, they are building:part belonging to the chapter house.

Toilet block, Shower block, Washroom block are pretty standard descriptions for distinct buildings for these purposes (e.g., in campsites, schools, military barracks etc) and I think other forms will always have "block" as part of the name. I must have tagged it this way because that is how I would give people navigation instructions in this village), but I don't see any great difference from building=toilets.

Perhaps add a description to the effect "Toilet Block".

Jerry

Hi lyctkel,

Bungalow is nothing close: a bungalow in UK parlance is typically a single storey detached or semi-detached house, with a variant with rooms in the roof space known as chalet bungalows. They are not any form of temporary accommodation. However not all levels=1 buildings are bungalows. Some towns in the UK are predominantly bungalows (e.g., Southend-on-Sea) and in rural Scotland & Ireland many/most buildings will be bungalows.

Wikipedia has an entry for portable classroom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_classroom), which may be provide the basis for a more explicit tag. The other phrase used a lot is "modular building".

Note that these are quite common on UK school sites, as were formerly various prefabricated buildings (most early post-WWII and now mainly gone). I have, however, mapped one which is still in use as a chapel in the grounds of Nottingham City Hospital (way/208973414).

There are quite good resources on post-WWII pre-fabricated houses (and I've tagged a few types around Nottingham), but it's hard to find anything about equivalent prefabs for institutions (schools, universities & hospitals), and later ones such as these. I spent 2.5 years at school in such buildings & had lessons in others right through my school life. University had another couple of groups & I consulted with one hospital which had lots (even in the early '90s). Nowadays post-WW2 prefabs (residential & industrial) are largely heritage objects (https://www.prefabmuseum.uk/) and some are listed buildings, so definitely worth having suitable tags.

Jerry

Hi,

I've updated the tags on the "gasometer". Really helpful to know it was gas pipeline. Should show up on OpenInfraMap if I've got them right.

If by chance you see pipeline markers along roadsides & fields they can be mapped too (this seems currently favoured tag marker=*). They are useful for working out where pipelines run.

Cheers,

Jerry aka SK53

Hi,

Yes, I think that would be fine, although it may lose a bit of nuance (hostels in UK English may be for other purposes than tourism: students, nurses, workers etc). I wanted to capture that this was purpose built by the YHA and consequently rather unusual.

Jerry

Hi,

I've done some updates on Maes Famau (Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd), still needs a bit of tidying. What is odd is that the latest Bing imagery doesn't appear in iD.

Cheers,

Jerry aka SK53

Wow, just spotted these. Impressive progress on solar in Northern Ireland!

@Millhouse: they have been at times, but: a) tagging is unclear, they're not really admin divisions for instance; b) it's easier to use the OS file direct for most purposes; c) they're difficult to verify on-the-ground; d) not of much interest to many. I think even polling stations are relatively poorly mapped & they are definitely useful, but also awkward things.

Indeed, as someone who lived for some years in the current Hanworth (Village) ward, much of the Hanworth Park ward includes areas which I would have said are in Feltham (the military/industrial areas N of the park).

@Millhouse: actually ward boundaries & MSOA & LSOA are all available as open data. Ward boundaries are in the OSGB Boundary Line download. MSOA & LSOA from ONS IIRC. Wards although named after local areas, often only loosely correspond with them & change with every boundary review so aren't particularly good representations of how people think about an area (plus sometimes they have made-up names, although I think that's been deprecated).

Please avoid making these changes which do not reflect the standing UK consensus for place names. We use place=suburb for locations like Cranford

Hi BorekSigar,

The OSM Community has been quite happy with the Hounslow node as a town for the past 15 years. Before making changes like this it is best to consider that perhaps a consensus exists as to the tagging. Greater London contains many towns which existed long before the expansion of the urban area. These are all recognised locally as towns.

Personally, I think you have confused Hounslow, the settlement, with The London Borough of Hounslow which is a local government district far larger than Hounslow itself including places such as Feltham and Brentford. The London Borough is mapped separately already.

Either way this is too large a divergence from a long established consensus to be allowed to stand. I am reverting this to the status quo ante.

If you feel that other places should be changed can you discuss this on talk-gb first.

Regards,

Jerry

Hi Mark,

It looks like Casey Boy has already changed it to permissive (way/893627652#map=19/53.66967/-2.29298). Probably an advantage of sharing these discussions, as someone else interested in accurate mapping of paths will pick it up.

Jerry

In this changeset you added a service road (way/824880656) between Pettingale Road & Llanthewy Close. A more detailed look showed that the connection at Llanthewy Close was a private driveway. In addition this type of alley service road is very unusual in post-WWII estates.

Can I ask if this addition was based on driver feedback? If not I will remove it because I dont think it is a road.

Jerry

Specifically this house (& the one next door) way/243536822. Also this one in Cambridge way/172026862 (which I know because I've been there, not because I've surveyed it).

Looks like this is it https://www.stmartinoftours.org.uk/services/davenant-road/. Possibly a social facility, but perhaps tread warily with such tagging. It may be they want to stay discrete. I know of group homes which are not visible as such from the road.

No data consumer will read changeset comments & these days source will be on the changeset, so removing operator does impair usage by data consumers (removing the source much less so). It's not a trivial point as I have found trees in an open data set which were not actually owned by the organisation who made the data (they had asset identifiers of another organisation). Asset numbers (ref) are usually assigned sequentially by an organisation so when trees are mapped in detail the operator is the only way to uniquely identify them. Tree ownership may be quite difficult to work out: I was surprised to see that trees in a local churchyard are owned by the council.

Jerry

Hi meteorquake,

Standard way is to retain building=church with disused:amenity=place_of_worship. If used for a new purposed building:use=residential (say): churches often still look like churches (particularly from a distance). Many redundant churches are also listed buildings, but not this one by the looks of things.

HTH,

Jerry aka SK53