<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-09-19 14:22 GMT+02:00 Dan S <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danstowell+osm@gmail.com" target="_blank">danstowell+osm@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
for buildings: building=residential + residential=university + operator=*<br>
OR<br>
for sites: landuse=residential + residential=university + operator=*<br>
<br>
Note that the same scheme seems to me to work well for building and for landuse.</blockquote></div><br><br>I am not sure if this "works". Have you been looking at current values for the "residential" key? These are the ones with more than 100 uses:<br><br><table class="" id="grid-values" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align=""><div style="width:200px"><span class=""><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/residential=rural">rural</a></span></div></td><td class="" align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:260px"><div class="">78 141</div><div class=""><br></div></div></td><td align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:20px">-</div></td><td align="left"><div style="text-align:left;width:600px"> </div></td></tr><tr class=""><td align=""><div style="width:200px"><span class=""><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/residential=urban">urban</a></span></div></td><td class="" align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:260px"><div class="">12 698</div><div class=""><br></div></div></td><td align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:20px">-</div></td><td align="left"><div style="text-align:left;width:600px"> </div></td></tr><tr><td align=""><div style="width:200px"><span class=""><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/residential=garden">garden</a></span></div></td><td class="" align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:260px"><div class="">3 805</div><div class=""><br></div></div></td><td align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:20px">-</div></td><td align="left"><div style="text-align:left;width:600px"> </div></td></tr><tr class=""><td align=""><div style="width:200px"><span class=""><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/residential=gated">gated</a></span></div></td><td class="" align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:260px"><div class="">884</div><div class=""><br></div></div></td><td align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:20px">-</div></td><td align="left"><div style="text-align:left;width:600px"> </div></td></tr><tr><td align=""><div style="width:200px"><span class=""><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/residential=apartments">apartments</a></span></div></td><td class="" align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:260px"><div class="">231</div><div class=""><br></div></div></td><td align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:20px">-</div></td><td align="left"><div style="text-align:left;width:600px"> </div></td></tr><tr class=""><td align=""><div style="width:200px"><span class=""><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/residential=single_family">single_family</a></span></div></td><td class="" align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:260px"><div class="">197</div><div class=""><br></div></div></td><td align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:20px">-</div></td><td align="left"><div style="text-align:left;width:600px"> </div></td></tr><tr><td align=""><div style="width:200px"><span class=""><a href="http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/residential=detached">detached</a></span></div></td><td class="" align="center"><div style="text-align:center;width:260px"><div class="">133</div><div class=""><br></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">There are already at least 3 different systems (one for rural / urban and one for the building typology (detached / single_family / apartments) and one for gated communities (what's this, socio-economic aspect of urbanism maybe?). Now you seem to be adding yet another one, "university" for student's appartments (not really self explaining IMHO).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I would use a specific tag for the building typology (e.g. building=dormitory or student_accomodation or similar if the building was built as such) and another one if it is actually used as such (e.g. under the amenity key as suggested by Tobias).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I don't see this as a case for adding a specific landuse value, but I do agree that refining the generic "residential" into more differentiated values by subtagging might be a general option (regardless of this particular case of student accomodation), e.g. differentiate according to density and <br><br>structure (open / closed, not sure about the precise term in English, for reference see these two pictures: <br>open (=space between buildings) <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offene_Bauweise_%28Baurecht%29#mediaviewer/File:Offene_Bauweise.png">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offene_Bauweise_%28Baurecht%29#mediaviewer/File:Offene_Bauweise.png</a> <br>closed (buildings without space between them): <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschlossene_Bauweise_%28Baurecht%29#mediaviewer/File:Geschlossene_Bauweise.png">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschlossene_Bauweise_%28Baurecht%29#mediaviewer/File:Geschlossene_Bauweise.png</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">the above distinction is still quite generic, both of these types also have a lot of subtypes (ideally, then there are mixed cases).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br> </div></div>