[Tagging] community centres

[Sean Horgan]

agreed.  there should be no restriction on who owns/provides the service.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 14:04, <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:

> 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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