[OSM-newbies] Appropriate use of OSM?

[Andrew Harris]

Hi, couple of questions:

1) I work at a large University and am compiling all sorts of data to
create a campus map. It's dawned on me (finally!) that OSM would be a
perfect tool to create and display a reasonably detailed (building
level) map of our campus... but is this appropriate? I can't see why
not, it's publically accesssible and would probably be quite useful to
our thousands of students and visitors, but maybe there's some
opinion/precedent here of similar cases.

2) Assuming there are no obstacles to (1), what about tagging?
If I draw an outline on a building how should I label it and tag it?
My experiments so far have found the following tags which I think are
appropriate... eg:

description: University of Melbourne
name: Law
building: yes
amenity : university

but what about these...
loc_ref or place_numbers for the building number?
our university has it's own postcode, so I assume postal_code would be
a handy addition.

Any other tips/ideas/comments?
Are there other examples of this sort of 'campus' mapping on OSM? - I
couldn't find any.

Andrew

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