The method just to copy the amenity value onto the building value dilutes the idea that the building
tag should describe the building typology.
An educational campus often consists both of purpose-built buildings, e.g. with a large lecture
hall, as well as re-dedicated buildings such as a villa now being used for researcher's offices or
seminar rooms.
So what is the building type difference between building=school and building=college when it
consists of seminar/class rooms?
Similarly there is little difference between a building with classrooms used for a primary school or
a kindergarten.
Anyway, what is the architectural perspective?
tom
On 07.12.2017 13:13, Marco Boeringa wrote:
"building=college"
is missing from the main building key page
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building).
This tag is the equivalent of building=school/university as the accompanying key for tagging the
actual buildings of an "amenity=college". It seems logical to add this to the building key page for
consistency with school/university amenities and buildings.
There is already an English Wiki page that can be linked from the building page if this tag is added
to the Civic/Amenity section just like the school/university examples:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Abuilding%3Dcollege
which also gives the TagInfo stat of almost 15.000 uses, so probably reason enough to add this to
the main building key page as well.
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