On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 11:44, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> writes: > > Universities may have faculties, that often deserved to be mapped > > separately. > > ... > > 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. > ... > > 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.
As a counterpoint, at my en_CA university established in 1957 we did have faculties in the sense used by Mateusz. Schools were generally ordered lower than faculties: School of Architecture was part of Faculty of Engineering. Most sub-parts of faculties were named Departments. --Jarek _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
