On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 09:01:22PM +0000, Kake L Pugh wrote:
I had! I think I only discussed this with Dom, but I was pondering the road/street locales, e.g. Cowley Road.
At the moment, these have things in them that are not strictly on the road itself, e.g. the Magic Cafe is in the Iffley Road and Cowley Road locales, because there isn't really a name for the locale that lies between those roads.
When you say "is in" do you mean you feel it should be? Because at the moment, it's only in the East Oxford locale, which is what I think is correct. I did a sketch of (what are effectively) locales when I was thinking of districts for OSM. http://walking-papers.org/scan-large.php?id=mkfsgn6c although it was only a "first draft".
For what it's worth, when it comes to Road Locales, I think Magdalen Road probably deserves a locale of its own these days, but I'd only use the road locale for something on the road itself, or within a couple of hundred metres of it. I'd find it hard if a group of people said they were meeting "in the Cowley Road area" and then discovered they'd gone to the Pegasus Theatre Cafe (at the Iffley Road end of Magdalen) - even more so if I were a student than now, when I know the area pretty well.
See for example the map of the Cowley Road locale: http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?action=index;format=map;index_type=locale...
Looking at this, I'd say Jahazi, the Inner Bookshop, Everest and Oxford Cycle Workshop are incorrectly tagged. The latter has moved location anyway - I'll try and get the correct geotags in soon unless someone beats me to it.
s