Assembling a draft page. it is my first "draft page", so my syntax is kinda crap. I will be working on the details of the proposal later today.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landuse%3Dcivic Javbw On Nov 4, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Tom Pfeifer <t.pfei...@computer.org> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> -- >> @osm_seattle >> osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us <http://osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us> >> OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
