<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 26, 2014, at 5:59 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in this field (government agencies/institutions/services) we are lacking almost all tags, but I would prefer to use something different than landuse (or subtag for landuse)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>We're talking about a very simple landuse=civic (which would let us mark out the land) and a civic=* tag, which can go with building=civic (or stand alone). Or we can add more tags into amenity, though I like the subtag better. </div><div><br></div><div>I think adding a subtag would eventually depreciate the amenity=townhall , community_centre / community_hall, and library - at least as stand-alone facilities (Amenity=library would still have a prominent place in mapping school campuses). </div><div><br></div><div>we don't need to define the building function though landuse, but just the class of building it falls under, just like industrial, commercial, and retail - those three cover vastly different business and building structures easily under 3 tags. </div><div><br></div><div>Then we have shop=* for the shops, and other business and amenity tags to cover the other things. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Civic=* can cover: </div><div><br></div><div>Supernational, national, regional, and city admin buildings - From the UN down to Village branch offices of the city hall. </div><div><br></div><div><div>Capitals often have huge office buildings devoted to the governmental offices or supporting the legislative bodies, </div><div>or regional branches, like the massive US "Federal Buildings" <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0557856,-118.448092,467m/data=!3m1!1e3">https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0557856,-118.448092,467m/data=!3m1!1e3</a> </div></div><div><br></div><div>=super_admin</div><div>=embassy</div><div>=national_admin</div><div>=regional_admin </div><div>=city_admin</div><div>=town_admin</div><div>=village_admin</div><div>=admin_office (general/unknown)</div><div><br></div><div>Pension offices, tax offices, auto registration, and other Non-emergency government facilities that you have to visit to speak with a government official for some reason. </div><div><br></div><div>=pension</div><div>=taxation</div><div>=health_office (VA, public heath insurance, etc - a place for paperwork, not medial treatment)</div><div>=vehicle_reg - DMV, avaition, boating, etc</div><div>=passport</div><div>=immigration <-this is huge and missing. Finding immigration offcies is a huge deal. </div><div><div>=judicial (courthouses, city attorney offices, etc)</div><div>=incarceration (prisons, jails, work camps,)</div></div><div>=checkpoint (immigration checkpoint, fruit&veg inspection, weigh stations,, border crossings, etc) **not the physical gate** - but the whole facility. they are usually quite large. </div><div><br></div><div>Public facilities that offer service to you somehow</div><div><br></div><div>=library</div><div>=community_center</div><div>= rec_center (a collection of disparate amenities) </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>interested in what you like and dislike. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Javbw</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>stand-alone Public libraries, recreation centers and community centers, which are often complexes of some kind. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>