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<p>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.</p>
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<p>On 2018-09-20 08:25, Andy Townsend wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">On 20/09/18 03:57, John Willis wrote:</span>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><br /> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">... Retail is always wrong. Commercial is a crutch.</span><br /> <br /> </blockquote>
<br /> 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(!).<br /> <br /> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">Best Regards,</span><br /> <br /> Andy<br /> <br /> <br /> _______________________________________________<br /> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">Tagging mailing list</span><br /> <span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a></span><br /> <span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a></span></div>
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