> On Sep 20, 2018, at 9:40 AM, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > It’s not necessary to have a separate landuse area if the government office > is in a single building or shop. In that case the overarching “landuse” is > still retail or commercial.
Do they sell "legislation" at a town hall? Does the DMV "conduct commerce"? Nope. Retail is always wrong. Commercial is a crutch. As for not needing an area polygon, I disagree. People mapping in a detailed way will want a point, a building, and an area. There are areas are available for many landuses, but not civic. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/36.31039/139.35191 Here is a convenience store I mapped. It is surrounded by fields, a restaurant, Civic buildings and surge resivoir. It is a single building on a single landuse, similar to the restaurant, the police station, fire station, and rice fields. Because it is a single use area - it doesn't need an area tag to encompass it's parking lots? Fences? Driveways? I think it does. The same is true with any Civic building. Even a single shop or a single single city hall building can and (eventually) should be mapped with such details, just as we would map commercial, industrial, and retail buildings. Point - building - area. Maybe the point is merged with the building or the area, but building *and* area are necessary in all but the most urban of environments. This is why I proposed land use=Civic, later revised to landuse=civic_admin. If a town hall or government office is a single building, you could just map the building and drop a pin on it. But if you wanted to map the extent of the land, using commercial or retail (imo) is *never* acceptable. It is not for commerce nor selling goods. We don't use landuse=retail for a hospital or a park for similar reasons. I wholeheartedly believe the decision to use commercial for Civic buildings was wrong, and came from an adversity to making enough new landuse values at the start. I want to correct that. I would like all landuse=Foo and building=foo to be similar, and be obvious what to use with new mappers. Industrial buildings are mapped on an industrial landuse. Building=Civic is mapped on... Commercial? Ugh. Landuse=civic_admin not only allows the proper mapping of stand-alone offices, but is the *only* way to proper way to map Civic complexes of multiple buildings with unique names. It is useful for both stand-alone buildings or multi-building complexes: there are always parking lots, walkways, and other amenities that "belong" to the point/building, yet are outside the building's footprint. An area polygon is the only way to map them, and landuse=* is the most versitille and consistent tag key to do it with. Javbw.
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