<div dir="ltr">Same here in the U.S. Usage of the word dormitory generally applies to a single building, a student residence on or near a college campus.<div><br></div><div>For your situation you might try using a relation to group the buildings as a named dormitory and then for each individual building you could enter its own name, purpose, address, etc.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Dudley Ibbett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dudleyibbett@hotmail.com" target="_blank">dudleyibbett@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi<br><br>I was going to say that from a UK English perspective I have never seen dormitory used in this way. However, in the context of a dictionary definition the proposal seems to relate to the definition with regard to a suburb "<span>A small town or suburb providing a residential area for those who work in a nearby city". </span>It also appears that it would be used as a modifier. i.e. a dormitory suburb. <br>
<br>I may have got this wrong but the proposal would seem to be extending this definition to mean a type of "suburb" of the University. UK Universities are rather small to have "dormitory suburbs" and you would generally just talk about the "halls of residence" or the perhaps the "residential" area of a campus.<br>
<br>Regards<br><br>Dudley<br><br><br><div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:christoph-jainek@gmx.de" target="_blank">christoph-jainek@gmx.de</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:17:27 +0000<br>Subject: [Tagging] Future proposal - RFC - amenity=dormitory<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Calibri,'Segoe UI',Meiryo,'Microsoft YaHei UI','Microsoft JhengHei UI','Malgun Gothic','Khmer UI','Nirmala UI',Tunga,'Lao UI',Ebrima,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">
<div>Hey,</div><div> </div><div>I just need some opinions to a proposal:</div><div><a title="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/amenity%3Ddormitory" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/amenity%3Ddormitory" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/amenity%3Ddormitory</a></div>
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