Same here in the U.S. Usage of the word dormitory generally applies to a single building, a student residence on or near a college campus.
For your situation you might try using a relation to group the buildings as a named dormitory and then for each individual building you could enter its own name, purpose, address, etc. On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Dudley Ibbett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I was going to say that from a UK English perspective I have never seen > dormitory used in this way. However, in the context of a dictionary > definition the proposal seems to relate to the definition with regard to a > suburb "A small town or suburb providing a residential area for those > who work in a nearby city". It also appears that it would be used as a > modifier. i.e. a dormitory suburb. > > I may have got this wrong but the proposal would seem to be extending this > definition to mean a type of "suburb" of the University. UK Universities > are rather small to have "dormitory suburbs" and you would generally just > talk about the "halls of residence" or the perhaps the "residential" area > of a campus. > > Regards > > Dudley > > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:17:27 +0000 > Subject: [Tagging] Future proposal - RFC - amenity=dormitory > > > Hey, > > I just need some opinions to a proposal: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/amenity%3Ddormitory > > Greetings > > Gesendet von Windows-Mail > > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list > [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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