Re: [Tagging] building=public vs. building=civic

2020-04-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Martin Koppenhoefer writes: > While building=public seems defined, I have difficulties with building=civic, > which is according to the wiki public building appears to have its origin as a legal term, and I don't see it as a type of building at all. In the US the term might be "public accomoda

Re: [Tagging] building=public vs. building=civic

2020-04-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 8. Apr 2020, at 12:35, Steve Doerr wrote: > > Whether that's what it means in OSM is another matter. While building=public seems defined, I have difficulties with building=civic, which is according to the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building#Civic.2FA

Re: [Tagging] building=public vs. building=civic

2020-04-08 Thread Steve Doerr
On 07/04/2020 23:36, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Although I also see a lot of overlap, I could imagine public buildings to be a bigger category of which civic buildings are only a part, according to your culture and context, one could imagine public buildings that aren’t civic buildings such as

Re: [Tagging] building=public vs. building=civic

2020-04-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Although I also see a lot of overlap, I could imagine public buildings to be a bigger category of which civic buildings are only a part, according to your culture and context, one could imagine public buildings that aren’t civic buildings such as churches and temples. I could also imagine peop

Re: [Tagging] building=public vs. building=civic

2020-04-07 Thread Simon Poole
It doesn't really matter if I think the current mixup of use-based vs. style building values is particular useful or not, I still need to be able to display (and suggest) them in a meaningful way. Am 07.04.2020 um 15:13 schrieb Marc M.: > Le 07.04.20 à 12:19, Simon Poole a écrit : >> is here any

Re: [Tagging] building=public vs. building=civic

2020-04-07 Thread Marc M.
Le 07.04.20 à 12:19, Simon Poole a écrit : > is here any actual differentiation between the two values both are often badly used to describe the current function of the building and not what it look like. the description of building=civic said "A building hosting any civic amenity", so it's nothi

[Tagging] building=public vs. building=civic

2020-04-07 Thread Simon Poole
While doing my regular comparison of different sets of presets (see my talk at SotM Milano for more information), one of the more noticeable differences  is the the presets that I maintain, and by extension JOSM, does not include building=civic. This was introduced later than building=public and by