[Tagging] Government buildings
Craig Wallace
craigw84 at fastmail.fm
Mon Dec 7 01:35:57 GMT 2009
On 07/12/2009 00:43, Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How do you tag:
> 1) Local MP (member of parliament)'s office?
> 2) A building belonging to a government department (eg, ministry of
> transport)
> 3) A building belonging to a service funded by the government (eg,
> Information Victoria, near me - sells maps and stuff)
> 4) Government funded research organisation that is not a university,
> (eg Defence Science Technologies Organisation - researches ways to
> kill people)
I think this shows that an "office=" tag would be useful, per the thread
on the talk list about lawyers/architects etc. eg for your example 1
could be office=politician, and 2 and 3 could be office=government or
similar (maybe plus a shop tag for 3 if it also sells things).
There is also a tag for amenity=public_building, but that's a bit vague IMO.
I'm not sure if there is any tags for research institutions, government
funded or otherwise. There are various proposals on the wiki, eg:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/research_institution or
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Science_Park
> I'm particularly curious that there does not appear to be a
> "government" landuse tag. Residential, commercial, industrial,
> military...no government?
There was a thread on the newbies list about this a few weeks back. I
think landuse is what the land is used for, not who owns it.
eg government/council workshops etc could be industrial. And the wiki
says landuse=commerical is "Predominantly offices, business parks, etc",
so could include government offices etc.
Also, the landuse tags are usually for the main use of a wider area, so
a town centre that's mostly shops with a few government offices in it
can still be landuse=retail etc,
> And related question, how do you tag charities? Op shops, social
> services, soup kitchens... Again, not really looking for a specific
> amenity tag, just the general landuse tag. All of the above options
> seem wrong.
I've been using shop=charity for charity shops (plus tags for operator=
etc), I don't know about the others.
And as above, aren't they usually part of a wider
retail/commercial/residential landuse area.
Craig
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