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. 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.
I think if editors will name the landuse=governmental preset 'government premises', there won't be a high risk that people would use this tag for land owned or regulated by the government. Alternatively, renaming the tag landuse=government_premises (or landuse=governmental_site) should clear up any ambiguities. Regards Markus _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
