Hi Tom,
Good point you raise about the building topology, but I do think there
are reasons to allow this:
- As to your point of building topology, as I mostly interpret this:
* school: tag mostly used for kindergarten or primary school: generally
only classrooms and no dedicated laboratory / science / workshop rooms
with electrity, water, gas and a range of technical equipment
* college: additional facilities like dedicated laboratory / science /
workshop rooms with electrity, water, gas and a range of technical
equipment including one or two fume hoods are usually standard
* university: full lab facilities including expensive equipment
requiring skilled operators, fume hoods, off-limit lab rooms for
specialized research etc.
Of course, this is just a rough classification. E.g. a high paid
luxurious private school/college may have more facilities than some
public school/college.
- An additional reason for allowing this type of tagging, is that you
can symbolize the actual buildings involved in a distinct way / color in
a style.
By the way, I agree not all buildings on an e.g. an amentiy=university
campus should by default be tagged building=university if there is a
more appropriate tag. E.g., if the building is a garage, office or
hospital just being part of the amenity=university campus grounds, tag
the relevant tag and not generic building=university.
Marco
Op 7-12-2017 om 13:53 schreef Tom Pfeifer:
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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