They are components of modern stone circles (built in 2000 IIRC), but Wales has a lot in the form of Gorsedd stones. A picture here: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3311833. Usually such things fall under historic=archaelogical_site, but these are neither.

They aren't unique in that quite a few things which are *usually* historic may have modern day replicas or counterparts. I've sort of assumed that all the historic things have an implicit man_made tag too.

I'll see if I can finish off my draft diary entry on "modern stone circles", as it was mainly written to raise the issue.

Jerry

Yes, I would presume UEA, still doesn't make it a university. That's precisely the arrangement which existed for typical teacher training colleges when they started offering degree courses: they were externally accredited by a university.

Yeah, it's a big FE college according to wikipedia (possibly misnamed as it's part of another college), possibly with some degree programmes accredited by an awarding body. I dont think anything without a royal charter makes sense as amenity=university now (obv. back in the day Polys did)

Easton College should be amenity=college not amenity=university I think.

Not sure this is completely true. The park also calls itself Eryri National Park (e.g., on the splash screen of their website), so I don't think it has completely gone over to just using a Welsh name, but that the place name element is now Welsh only.

I'm sure this is sensible from a marketing perspective, where "Parc Cenedlaethol" will lack meaning for English monoglot speakers, and some continuity in elements of the name helps place the updated usage.

Unfortunately, most of the route relation you have tagged as being the A1 is not N of Edinburgh. There is no guaranteed relationship between signed UK road numbers and E-road numbers

Hi,

You failed to include all the building when you revised this, check out the building:part N of S corridor labelled Newell Ward.

Jerry

Definitely time to start a thread on community.osm. I'll see if I can find some of the Icelandic & Norwegian examples, in the meantime there are also these above Pontresina way/981577482/history#map=17/46.49516/9.90856

Ah, very interesting. The paper I linked earlier talks about "bumps" which are energy dissipation devices rather than straight protection (they have a high angled face which forces the flow into the air with some loss of energy). The discussion in the paper seems to always associate them with a lower dam feature.

They are described as concrete wedges in this document: https://www.preventionweb.net/files/10851_avalancheprotection.pdf.

Long ago one of my Praktikants at UBS in Zurich was the son of the director of the Swiss Avalanche Institute, would be a useful contact now.

I'm a little puzzled by these, because although they will disrupt an avalanche flow, they don't seem to be protecting anything on immediately downhill of the obstruction. Retaining wall is clearly wrong as one would expect a retaining wall to have the wall part to be on the lower side.

Yes I think I would call them berms.

The one's I've mapped closest to this are in the Val St Antonien (and are very characteristic of Walser houses in that valley), and I did use berm (see osm.wiki/Avalanche_protection#House_defenses_in_St_Antonien,_Graubunden).

It's a bit awkward that there are very good terms in DE and it's a little hard to translate or find the appropriate equivalent in EN.

I suppose this is the consensus, I don't think they are fences though, even though they are distinctly barriers.

There are all sorts of odd tags with avalanche protection (passive) and (active) which I think can lead to confusion : e.g., showing CatEx as aerialways. There is a distinct problem with proper snow fences (which are fences :-)) which protect from drifting snow (good examples on Parsennbahn), but not avalanches not being distinguished in some mapping from snow bridges.

There are also some more unusual avalanche protection features (not all of which I've been able to map, e..g. above Tasch). It might be worth exploring some of these on the community website.

Jerry aka SK53

PS. It's a very long way down from Spi da Baselgia to Zernez! I only learnt at the summit that many people took a local taxi up the forestry road to around 1800 m on the Zernez side and then walked to Lavin, but I did it the other way!

Postal address of Hollinside Terrace is Lanchester, Durham not Hollinside, Durham (just received a letter)

Hi Steven,

No, not in a position to make such judgements. Years since I used to frequent the area. I just happened to see something about the Dodo micropub & was intrigued if it had been mapped & saw the opportunity to add some "fhrs:id" values.

I totally agree about "outside seating" and "beer garden", and have been mapping accordingly.

Jerry

Done.

Not my intention, so I'll put it back to yes.

Jerry

Hi Shaun,

My suspicion also. I'll remove it. I'm sure there is a pub with a royal_cypher somewhere (old telephone exchange or similar, as this one which has a Travelodge inside relation/8239597), but this one looks unlikely :-)

Jerry

Hi Shaun,

Does the Carriers Arms really have a royal_cypher=EIIR? Seems unlikely, but hope you might remember.

I'm trawling through some of the odder keys on pubs (quite a lot given there are 800 different keys across just England & Wales).

Jerry

Minor point, but usually the numeric references for SAC Scale have a "T" prefix, at least in Swiss guidebooks & on the Hikr website. These also seem to be the common values on OSM, see https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/sac_scale_ref#values.

Personally I have always used these, and often forget which way round the more descriptive names go.

The editor should pull common values when you type in the first part "sac_scale_ref" so you can see what others have used.

Jerry aka SK53