On 19 Sep 2014 16:54, "Tobias Knerr" <o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote: > > On 19.09.2014 14:22 Dan S wrote: > > for buildings: building=residential + residential=university + operator=* > > OR > > for sites: landuse=residential + residential=university + operator=* > > > > Note that the same scheme seems to me to work well for building and for landuse. > > > > I thought this had been discussed on tagging recently, but I can't > > find it, all I can find is the RFC for amenity=dormitory, currently > > used 263 times. (I will add that "dormitory" is certainly a little odd > > from a British English point of view, notwithstanding the comments > > already made to the RFC.) > > That proposal now suggests amenity=student_accommodation, precisely > because of the oddness involved with the term "dormitory". > > Personally, I prefer using the amenity key rather than building or > landuse. Landuse lacks the implication that this is one distinct > facility, and building values are not supposed to represent usage, but > how the building is built. > +1 I tagged some student residences as tourism=guest_house previously, but they aren't buildings (some are apartments inside buildings, but owned by the local government agency for student services).
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