> On Sep 20, 2018, at 5:39 PM, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Maybe it's just me, but I really can't understand why landuse for government 
> functions needs its own tagging. The buildings are often indistinguishable 
> from commercial properties

Why does what the buildings look like matter? 

Hospitals look like office buildings. So do schools. We differentiate their 
tagging based on *what we call it and what is expected (regionally) inside*. We 
wouldn't tag a regional hospital or a university as an office park because the 
"buildings look the same". 

Many parks are indistinguishable from natural=grassland or landuse=farmland, 
but we make the distinction. 

In many places, a city hall is a very different place than an ordinary office 
building - even if we don't care that much about them. 

Javbw. 


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