[OSM-newbies] Tagging municipal/government areas

[Isaac Wingfield]

> From: Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Isaac Wingfield <isw at witzend.com>  
> wrote:
>> There's a local "campus" comprising several buildings, where the  
>> Santa
>> Clara Municipal Water District has its offices, labs, service yard  
>> for
>> trucks, and so on. In trying to map it, I can't find what I think is
>> an appropriate landuse tag on the "Map Features" page. It seems the
>> "industrial" or "commercial" tags wouldn't be correct, but there's
>> nothing else. I'm a bit surprised that there's not a "municipal" or
>> "government" tag.
>
> Offices, labs, service yard - I would call such an area "industrial".
> Why don't you think that would be correct?

To me, "industrial" implies private business, not government; we refer  
to the "automobile industry", for example.

Isaac

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