In Sweden government agencies are actually not allowed to own the
properties they use.
Therefore they have long term tenant contracts with required minimum
level of building maintenance, etc.
These properties are owned by large private real estate giants buying
and selling from each other.
The owners see the agency as a tenant, nothing more. If the agency moves
the owner finds any other tenant to rent out the space to.
I tend to agree with Colins arguments below, because in Sweden gov.
agencies are very mixed into the central spaces of cities but often not
clustered together in large complexes or whole areas.
Cheers
Egil
On 9/20/18 10:39 AM, Colin Smale wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but I really can't understand why landuse for
government functions needs its own tagging. The buildings are often
indistinguishable from commercial properties - what is different is
that the occupier is some statutory organisation. We don't tag
landuse=charity, or landuse=private, or landuse=education, so why
landuse=civic_admin? If you want to know who the tenant of a certain
building is, let's have tenant=City of Blah and allow this for any
building (or campus). Same arguments against landuse=religious. Why
should farm be tagged as landuse=religious instead of landuse=farmland
just because it is run by monks? Land use is the use a piece of land
is put to, and not WHO is doing the using or WHY they are doing it. If
we want to record those other dimensions, use different tags instead
of further complicating the landuse mess.
On 2018-09-20 08:25, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 20/09/18 03:57, John Willis wrote:
... Retail is always wrong. Commercial is a crutch.
In your part of the world, perhaps. Elsewhere, this isn't guaranteed
to be the case. Certainly here in the UK many formerly "civic"
services have been privatised and are run for out-and-out commercial
gain; others are run as commercial entities owned by the government
or non-governmental third sector organisations. What this means is
that people will need to pick the landuse that works best for them in
their local area - to say that something is "always wrong" is, in
OSM, almost always wrong(!).
Best Regards,
Andy
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