Thank you, Joseph and Warin, for your feedback! On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 at 04:02, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. [...] For these reasons, I believe the current tag > "landuse=civic_admin" or "landuse=public_administration" are a little better. > [...]
I'm aware of this risk and i was quite undecided between landuse=governmental and landuse=public_administration. public_administration isn't unproblematic too, because, if i'm not mistaken, legislature facilities (places where assembly/parliament/congress meets) and courts are another divisions of government and don't belong to the public administration. But dividing land used for governing would complicate mapping too much in my opinion. Any more opinions on that point? I'd be fine with changing the tag to landuse=public_administration if other people think that this tag is better. > 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?" You're right, 'public service facility' was unclear. I was thinking of public service facilities that aren't directly involved in or responsible for governing or organising the country, state or municipality (or any other administrative division), but that have other purposes like educating people, caring for their health, offering them leisure activities etc. These should be excluded from landuse=governmental. Consequently, the Public Health Department would be landuse=governmental, but not public health facilities like hospitals, clinics or doctor's practices. I've updated the proposal page. On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 at 12:00, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think that there first need to be clear definitions of what are: > > public administration > executive > Legislature > Judiciary (courts) I'm going to try improving and adding definitions. > and where things fit... > > police (national, state, municipal) > military - excluded? > libraries (national, state, municipal) > schools - excluded? > post office - excluded? These facilities would all be excluded because they have different purposes than governing or organising the country, state or municipality. (I'm thinking of proposing landuse=educational later.) > tax office > vehicle licence office These would be included. > 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? There's landuse=institutional, [3] but this tag overlaps with landuse=military which is already in use ... And i don't know how to name such a land use differently. [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dinstitutional I suggest to tag the main use for places with mixed land use, probably the land use that uses the most space. For example, if there's a small police station or post office in a city hall, i'd still tag it landuse=governmental or landuse=public_administration. There will always be places with mixed land use, probably the most common example being buildings with shops on the ground floor and apartments on the upper floors. Regards Markus _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
