On 07/12/2009 00:43, Steve Bennett wrote: > Hi all, > > How do you tag: > 1) Local MP (member of parliament)'s office? > 2) A building belonging to a government department (eg, ministry of > transport) > 3) A building belonging to a service funded by the government (eg, > Information Victoria, near me - sells maps and stuff) > 4) Government funded research organisation that is not a university, > (eg Defence Science Technologies Organisation - researches ways to > kill people)
I think this shows that an "office=" tag would be useful, per the thread on the talk list about lawyers/architects etc. eg for your example 1 could be office=politician, and 2 and 3 could be office=government or similar (maybe plus a shop tag for 3 if it also sells things). There is also a tag for amenity=public_building, but that's a bit vague IMO. I'm not sure if there is any tags for research institutions, government funded or otherwise. There are various proposals on the wiki, eg: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/research_institution or http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Science_Park > I'm particularly curious that there does not appear to be a > "government" landuse tag. Residential, commercial, industrial, > military...no government? There was a thread on the newbies list about this a few weeks back. I think landuse is what the land is used for, not who owns it. eg government/council workshops etc could be industrial. And the wiki says landuse=commerical is "Predominantly offices, business parks, etc", so could include government offices etc. Also, the landuse tags are usually for the main use of a wider area, so a town centre that's mostly shops with a few government offices in it can still be landuse=retail etc, > And related question, how do you tag charities? Op shops, social > services, soup kitchens... Again, not really looking for a specific > amenity tag, just the general landuse tag. All of the above options > seem wrong. I've been using shop=charity for charity shops (plus tags for operator= etc), I don't know about the others. And as above, aren't they usually part of a wider retail/commercial/residential landuse area. Craig _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
