I couldn't agree more. Still sure that you don't want to resurrect the proposal? :-) I will never be able to express my thoughts that well ...
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 at 15:46, John Willis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Sep 20, 2018, at 8:49 PM, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > But this discussion is about land usage > > Yes, and the Civic functions of governing a people are very different than > the usage of educating them, treating their health, selling them goods, and > manufacturing said goods. We have landuses (or at least area uses) for each. > > It's not about the buildings, nor the grass, but the importance people give > to the set activities and services performed by Civic representatives and > servants. That makes the location special - so it is mapped differently. > > We have a special name for the building they occupy, and often have large > multi-building complexes - with it's own name - that deserves the same level > of mapping granularity we give to office buildings, elementary schools, > malls, hospitals, industrial complexes, power stations, and transportation > centers. > > Even if all the buildings were *exactly the same* and sat on identical square > plots of land, owned by the same person, one after another down the street, a > fence separating each, with only the sign out front to denote their > differences - each would have it's point(s), it's building, and it's landuse > tagged in a different manner. > > I do not want to shoehorn in one type into another for no discernable reason, > other than "it looks like an office building" - nor does it represent the > "ground truth" in thousands of mappable landuses. It may not apply to your > area, but it sure does to mine and others around the globe - possibly in the > capital city of every region and country on Earth. > > Just because you don't feel it is necessary in your region, that is zero > justification for it's disapproval. There are other regions where it is > totally justified. OSM is flexible enough to handle all use cases if we have > enough categories of points, buildings, and a enough landuses to mix and > match to represent _all_ the types of situations, not just what you (or I) am > familiar with. > > Javbw. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
