[Tagging] "building=college" tag missing from building key page

[Tom Pfeifer]

The method just to copy the amenity value onto the building value dilutes the idea that the building 
tag should describe the building typology.

An educational campus often consists both of purpose-built buildings, e.g. with a large lecture 
hall, as well as re-dedicated buildings such as a villa now being used for researcher's offices or 
seminar rooms.

So what is the building type difference between building=school and building=college when it 
consists of seminar/class rooms?

Similarly there is little difference between a building with classrooms used for a primary school or 
a kindergarten.

Anyway, what is the architectural perspective?

tom

On 07.12.2017 13:13, Marco Boeringa wrote:
> "building=college"
> 
> is missing from the main building key page (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building).
> 
> This tag is the equivalent of building=school/university as the accompanying key for tagging the 
> actual buildings of an "amenity=college". It seems logical to add this to the building key page for 
> consistency with school/university amenities and buildings.
> 
> There is already an English Wiki page that can be linked from the building page if this tag is added 
> to the Civic/Amenity section just like the school/university examples:
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Abuilding%3Dcollege
> 
> which also gives the TagInfo stat of almost 15.000 uses, so probably reason enough to add this to 
> the main building key page as well.