[Tagging] Future proposal - RFC - amenity=dormitory

[Dave Swarthout]

Same here in the U.S. Usage of the word dormitory generally applies to a
single building, a student residence on or near a college campus.

For your situation you might try using a relation to group the buildings as
a named dormitory and then for each individual building you could enter its
own name, purpose, address, etc.


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Dudley Ibbett <dudleyibbett at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>  Hi
>
> I was going to say that from a UK English perspective I have never seen
> dormitory used in this way.  However, in the context of a dictionary
> definition the proposal seems to relate to the definition with regard to a
> suburb  "A small town or suburb providing a residential area for those
> who work in a nearby city".    It also appears that it would be used as a
> modifier.  i.e. a dormitory suburb.
>
> I may have got this wrong but the proposal would seem to be extending this
> definition to mean a type of "suburb" of the University.   UK Universities
> are rather small to have "dormitory suburbs" and you would generally just
> talk about the "halls of residence" or the perhaps the "residential" area
> of a campus.
>
> Regards
>
> Dudley
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: christoph-jainek at gmx.de
> To: tagging at openstreetmap.org
> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:17:27 +0000
> Subject: [Tagging] Future proposal - RFC - amenity=dormitory
>
>
> Hey,
>
> I just need some opinions to a proposal:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/amenity%3Ddormitory
>
> Greetings
>
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