Interesting! That is more generic than simply civic_admin - one would
not expect the primary land use of a school or a hospital to be
"administration". When/to whom is this classification significant? 

Colin 

On 2014-03-16 19:49, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: 

> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
>> They all sound much like offices (landuse=commercial) to me. Ownership has 
>> nothing to do with land use. In this case, the city council happen to be the 
>> users of the property, but if they need to downsize for whatever reason and 
>> a particular building gets a new tenant, will the land use change? I 
>> wouldn't have thought so.
> 
> Well, in my country, these are classified as a different landuse and not 
> commercial. Please see this land use map as an example: 
> http://mandaluyong.gov.ph/img/profile/map9.gif [2]
> 
> Hospitals, schools, universities, and civic/admin facilities (such as 
> municipal or village townhalls) are classed as "institutional" landuse. So 
> for my country, landuse=civic_admin (or similar) would make sense. 
> 
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