On 16/01/2016 8:35 AM, Colin Smale wrote:
How would you translate or apply these tags in e.g. the UK or the
Netherlands (my home countries)? What is a "state government"? What is
a "local government seat"? These things will mean different things to
different people.
Although this is phrased a bit rhetorically, I do think we should be
aware that a description in one person's vernacular is not necessarily
clear to a diverse audience. A "town hall" is (to me) a bit archaic,
but I think many people would be able to answer the question "where is
the town hall?" for their home municipality. It will often be a
historic building, and may or may not be where the council chamber is,
or where the "mayor" or the head of the council has their office. So
how do you decide if a building is a/the Town Hall?
And what would be an example of "an office of a local administrative
authority, not related to the state government"? I cannot imagine,
maybe someone can jog my brain in the right direction.
As for building=public, well, words fail me. What is a "public
building"? A building to which the public has access? That's not an
attribute of the building, that needs an access=* tag.
This kind of unclear semantics is exactly why I will vote to
discourage amenity=public_building. Let's not throw the baby out with
the bath water and suggest a replacement which is just as bad, if not
worse.
These tags and the descriptions are already on the wiki.
If they should be improved .. or discouraged .. then do that as separate
issues.
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Town Halls...
England ...
https://www.thsh.co.uk/town-hall/
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/townhall/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk/
https://www.loughboroughtownhall.co.uk/
and a few more...
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"an office of a local administrative authority, not related to the state
government"
Errr some names ? local council, shire council, county council...
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building=public .. already done this. I do agree that it is not 'good'.
But someone put it up. And it can be discussed .. on the wiki or as a
separate thread.
//colin
On 2016-01-15 22:13, Warin wrote:
On 16/01/2016 7:03 AM, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
Hi all,
Based on the discussion arising from my previous message, it seems
that there is support to discourage the tag amenity=public_building.
I have therefore created a proposal page to explicitly mark this tag
as discouraged in the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Discourage_amenity%3Dpublic_building
Please let me know what you think.
There should be a mention of tagging a feature as well as a function.
So I would separate up the tags thus;
..."Some examples:
To tag a function;
* office <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:office>=public
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dgovernment> for
an office of an agency or department of the national/state
government.
* office
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:office>=administrative
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dadministrative>
for an office of a local administrative authority, not related to
the state government.
* amenity <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:amenity>=townhall
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dtownhall> for a
local government seat.
To tag a feature;
* building <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:office>=public
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dgovernment> for
a public building.
* building <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:office>=school
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dadministrative>
for a school.
"
?
-- Matthijs
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