[Tagging] How to tag a public works facility ?

[Dan S]

Any reasons not to use landuse=depot? Besides the sparsity of its wiki page...
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Ddepot
428 instances in taginfo


2014-02-19 16:27 GMT+00:00 Tod Fitch <tod at fitchdesign.com>:
> For what it is worth, in the area I live in such facilities seem to be called "corporate yards".
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> Since "industrial=depot" seems to have only one use at present and does not fit exactly. At least it does not fit in my mind. Perhaps it could be tagged as "landuse=industrial, industrial=corporate_yard" with operator="City of XXXX" and maybe name="XXX Corporate Yard"
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> -Tod
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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 3:37 AM, SomeoneElse wrote:
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>> Pieren wrote:
>>> It's a small area with several buildings where the municipality is
>>> storing vehicles and the maintenance and repair services.
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>> I've gone with "landuse=industrial, industrial=depot" for these in the past:
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>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/254083705
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>> (although arguably the "name" on that should actually be "operator")
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>>> Someone
>>> suggests to use "amenity=public_building" but it's deprecated now in
>>> the wiki...
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>> Whoever edited the wiki clearly failed to communicate with all the editor authors since "amenity=public_building" is a default in P2 (not that it's relevant in this case, since what you're describing isn't just a building.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Andy
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