To me, "Civic" is short for "Civic Services". Maybe I should make that clear. I updated the RFC page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landuse%3Dcivic http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civic : of or relating to a city or town or the people who live there : relating to citizenship or being a citizen Hence, "Services" of or relating to a city or town ➛ government provided services to it's residents ➛ Civic Services. > This would also imply a toplevel distinction between governments that are > civil, those that are military and those that are religious Who cares what the government is. This is services to the citizens. I'm sure Iran and North Korea still have a tax office and a DMV. There are large sections of many City centers dominated by government buildings. Those complexes are distinct, The services they offer are usually monopolistic to the government, and deserve to differentiated. There's no competition to the Tax office, the DMV, or the city council. > we already tag residential, industrial, commercial, retail areas City/regional/capital complexes are none of these. > I don't think we should be looking for a "one tags catches all" solution > we already tag residential, industrial, commercial, retail areas The above are catch-alls, albeit business is divided into three groups. Religious was the other last missing catch-all (to me) These are generic landuses. If you want to create a ton of amenity tags to describe the actual function of the buildings beyond this class, then that is a great option too. I was suggesting a civic=subtag. This seems very straight forward to me. If you want to exclude something from this to have it's own landuse (judicial / penal) I'm all ears, but to deny that there is a need for a landuse for these clearly differentiated Government offices in city centers throughout the entire world seems incorrect. Business-government-citizen-military-religion-farm-park. There's some mixing between them, but those are the big developed-land landuses ones to me. Civic covers the missing hole pretty well. The last missing hole. javbw On Nov 4, 2014, at 7:06 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2014-11-03 20:13 GMT+01:00 Tom Pfeifer <[email protected]>: > What about landuse=civil ? > > Oxford defines as attribute "of or relating to ordinary citizens and their > concerns, > as distinct from military or ecclesiastical matters", and > in law as "relating to private relations between members of a community; > noncriminal" > > Thus it includes civil government, civil services, civil affairs, civil law, > civil defence. > Thus land occupied by tax/pension/immigration offices, ministries, > parliaments and their subsidiaries. > > It would semantically exclude military, religious, judical/prison areas. > > > I'm opposing "civil" or "civic" by the definitions you cited above, because > it would mean all land excluded that used for military and religious > purposes, i.e. it would include residential, commercial (when there is no > military or church), retail (if its not a religious institution selling > something), industrial (if ...) etc. > > I don't see this as helpful given the point from where we are starting (we > already tag residential, industrial, commercial, retail areas according to > the type of usage, regardless of the nature of the operator (military, > civilian, ecclesiastical)). > > This would also imply a toplevel distinction between governments that are > civil, those that are military and those that are religious (not necessarily > a bad thing but might lead to strange tagging differences between countries). > > I don't think we should be looking for a "one tags catches all" solution, and > see which tags are needed (maintaining compatibility with our current scheme) > and what are the best words to describe them. > > > cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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