[Tagging] University accommodation (was Re: Future proposal - RFC - amenity=dormitory)

[John F. Eldredge]

Another difference between college dormitories and apartments is that 
dormitory rooms usually lack cooking facilities, and, at least in older 
buildings, may have communal toilet/shower facilities rather than en suite 
facilities.



On September 20, 2014 8:47:08 AM sabas88 <sabas88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 Sep 2014 16:54, "Tobias Knerr" <osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
> >
> > On 19.09.2014 14:22 Dan S wrote:
> > >  for buildings:   building=residential + residential=university +
> operator=*
> > >         OR
> > >  for sites:   landuse=residential + residential=university + operator=*
> > >
> > > Note that the same scheme seems to me to work well for building and for
> landuse.
> > >
> > > I thought this had been discussed on tagging recently, but I can't
> > > find it, all I can find is the RFC for amenity=dormitory, currently
> > > used 263 times. (I will add that "dormitory" is certainly a little odd
> > > from a British English point of view, notwithstanding the comments
> > > already made to the RFC.)
> >
> > That proposal now suggests amenity=student_accommodation, precisely
> > because of the oddness involved with the term "dormitory".
> >
> > Personally, I prefer using the amenity key rather than building or
> > landuse. Landuse lacks the implication that this is one distinct
> > facility, and building values are not supposed to represent usage, but
> > how the building is built.
> >
> +1
> I tagged some student residences as tourism=guest_house previously, but
> they aren't buildings (some are apartments inside buildings, but owned by
> the local government agency for student services).
>
> Stefano
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