ok, now we have landuse={governmental|public_administrative|civic|civil|public}

For my taste, public implies much more openness than we have from some
ministries, immigration offices etc, but is certainly a value to consider.

I would like to put a RFC page together towards the end of the week,
so it would be nice it the other contributors to this discussion would
indicate under which title we should start it.

tom

johnw wrote on 2014-11-04 00:40:
> and the line between public and private is not one OSM singles out very much 
(is is a public school vs a private school?), but things are separated by 
function. and the functions are of a civic government (pnsion offices, taxes, 
judicial, etc). I would use
> the word "public" or “government” but civil (opoopsite of military or company 
use) is a good fit, and civic is basically “for civil”, so it works well enough - and 
matches a pre-existing approved building subtag.
>
> Javbw


Clifford Snow wrote on 2014-11-04 00:30:

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:02 PM, johnw <jo...@mac.com <mailto:jo...@mac.com>> 
wrote:

    Civic is what I suggested a few months ago. but where the line is drawn is 
up for debate: what is included in this catch-all, and what isn’t.

    I’ve tried arguing that each class should have their own catch-all landuse 
- eg: we have residential/ retail/ industrial/ commericial - and hundreds of 
different tags to properly define the the buildings that would fall into these 
4 land uses.

    I believe there is a good case for landuse=civic (name matches 
building=civic) to cover the basic landuse of a myriad of 
public/civic/institutional/state services that could be tagged with more 
specific amenity tags, or a new civic=• subtag - either
    through point markers, building labels, or on the area with the landuse.

    Let the landuse denote class, and the other tags take care of the detail. 
just like with residential / commercial / retail / industrial.

    if you want to slice out a service  (eg, school, hospital, airport), that’s 
fine - but I think there is enough leftover to warrant another broad landuse 
class.


I just noticed that my local government uses "public" for these types of landuse. That 
seems like a appropriate land use for most of the usages described. Civic refers to the duties of 
people associated with their governments. Public refers to being "open"
as in the lands and buildings.

Clifford


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