I think that there first need to be clear definitions of what are:
* public administration
* executive
* Legislature
* Judiciary (courts)
and where things fit...
police (national, state, municipal)
military - excluded?
libraries (national, state, municipal)
schools - excluded?
tax office
vehicle licence office
post office - excluded?
and so on...
Do these all need to be combined? That does suit places where they are
physically combined ... and if people then want to further identify them
then sub tags could be used.
As for the word to use... that will come, after the definitions?
On 14/10/18 13:00, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
Thanks for working on this proposal, Markus. I agree that it would be
useful to have an approved type of land use for the administrative
offices of governments.
However, I'm not sure that "governmental" is the best value for the
landuse key. I think there would be a risk of mappers finding this tag
in the editors and using it for all governnment-owned land, not just
for administrative offices. In North America, and in many developing
countries, the national or local government owns large areas of land,
including rangeland, forests, transportation facilities, and military
areas, in addition to land uses for government offices.
In North America, it is somewhat common to talk about "government
land" or more specifically, "Federal land," "State land", and
"Municipal land". But the only uses of "governmental land use" I've
found are in phrases talking about "governmental land use policy",
"governmental land use regulations", and "governmental land use
decision making". In these cases, the phrase is talking about
governments regulating all types of land use, including commercial,
retail, residential and industrial.
For these reasons, I believe the current tag "landuse=civic_admin" or
"landuse=public_administration" are a little better. They are not
perfect, because "civic" isn't precisely correct for land used for
national or provincial government offices, but they are less
ambiguous. If this proposal is going to use a new tag, it should
include something about the administrative nature of the land, so that
mappers are less likely to use the tag incorrectly for other types of
government-owned land.
Also, in the proposal, it is stated that this tag will not be used for
"Public service facilities"
What is the definition of a "public service facility" as opposed to
"public administration offices?"
For example, would the Department of Motor Vehicles be considered a
public service, or an administrative office?
What about the administrative headquarters of the Public Health
Department?
These offices combine some administrative features and some public
service features.
Thanks! I hope this proposal will be approved once it is improved - Joseph
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 7:26 AM SelfishSeahorse
<selfishseaho...@gmail.com <mailto:selfishseaho...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello everyone!
I am proposing a new tag, landuse=governmental, for marking land that
is used for governing:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landuse%3Dgovernmental
Regards
Markus
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