Apart from technicalities, there is another problem. Universities in different countries are subdivide in dìfferent ways: faculties, departments, institutes, colleges. Except for campus-type universities they are often distributed over an entire city. I have not looked into this in detail, but this seems to me a strong case for site relations.
On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 17:05, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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