Another difference between college dormitories and apartments is that
dormitory rooms usually lack cooking facilities, and, at least in older
buildings, may have communal toilet/shower facilities rather than en suite
facilities.
On September 20, 2014 8:47:08 AM sabas88 <saba...@gmail.com> wrote:
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).
Stefano
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