[Tagging] community centres

[john at jfeldredge.com]

Your proposed changes make sense to me.

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Subject :[Tagging] community centres
From  :mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com
Date  :Mon Sep 27 16:02:20 America/Chicago 2010


I happened to stumble over
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcommunity_centre
The definition restricts usage with this sentence "The Community
Centre is owned and provided by the local government."

The linked wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_centre doesn't for good
reasons: it mentions a lot of those facilities run by religious
communities, which are in most countries not "the local government".
There is also the possibility that a foundation or a political party
run a centre like this.

I find the restriction to governmental institutions somewhat
unnecessary. What about changing this? We could still encourage the
use of an operator tag to clarify who runs the thing.

cheers,
Martin

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