and the line between public and private is not one OSM singles out very much (is is a public school vs a private school?), but things are separated by function. and the functions are of a civic government (pnsion offices, taxes, judicial, etc). I would use the word "public" or “government” but civil (opoopsite of military or company use) is a good fit, and civic is basically “for civil”, so it works well enough - and matches a pre-existing approved building subtag.
Javbw > On Nov 4, 2014, at 8:30 AM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:02 PM, johnw <jo...@mac.com <mailto:jo...@mac.com>> > wrote: > Civic is what I suggested a few months ago. but where the line is drawn is up > for debate: what is included in this catch-all, and what isn’t. > > I’ve tried arguing that each class should have their own catch-all landuse - > eg: we have residential/ retail/ industrial/ commericial - and hundreds of > different tags to properly define the the buildings that would fall into > these 4 land uses. > > I believe there is a good case for landuse=civic (name matches > building=civic) to cover the basic landuse of a myriad of > public/civic/institutional/state services that could be tagged with more > specific amenity tags, or a new civic=• subtag - either through point > markers, building labels, or on the area with the landuse. > > Let the landuse denote class, and the other tags take care of the detail. > just like with residential / commercial / retail / industrial. > > if you want to slice out a service (eg, school, hospital, airport), that’s > fine - but I think there is enough leftover to warrant another broad landuse > class. > > I just noticed that my local government uses "public" for these types of > landuse. That seems like a appropriate land use for most of the usages > described. Civic refers to the duties of people associated with their > governments. Public refers to being "open" as in the lands and buildings. > > Clifford > > > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us <http://osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us/> > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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