Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> writes: > Universities may have faculties, that often deserved to be mapped separately. > > For example university may take a large area, possibly disjointed area across > the city > but Faculty of dentistry, Faculty of forestry, Faculty of mathematics etc may > be > possible to be mapped as an area/node. > > Currently typical way to do that is to either > - map name on building > - create fake amenity=university with amenity=university > > It seems to me that amenity=faculty would be useful.
Perhaps, but beware that in US English, this is bizarre usage. Faculty refers to the set of people that are professors, not a place, and not a subdivision of a university. As an example, one well-known University has within in School of Science School of Engineering School of Architecture of Planning School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. School of Management and College of Computing I'm sure other universities contain within them colleges, and I suspect "school" is fairly common. Really my point is that "Faculty of mathematics" is going to be confusing to en_US speakers. I have no idea if it's used in en_GB, but I've never heard of it. To your real point, it does seem make sense to have a tag for a subdivision of a university. But, often these sub-parts are administrative and not physical. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
