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

[Marco Boeringa]

Hi Tom,

Good point you raise about the building topology, but I do think there 
are reasons to allow this:

- As to your point of building topology, as I mostly interpret this:

* school: tag mostly used for kindergarten or primary school: generally 
only classrooms and no dedicated laboratory / science / workshop rooms 
with electrity, water, gas and a range of technical equipment

* college: additional facilities like dedicated laboratory / science / 
workshop rooms with electrity, water, gas and a range of technical 
equipment including one or two fume hoods are usually standard

* university: full lab facilities including expensive equipment 
requiring skilled operators, fume hoods, off-limit lab rooms for 
specialized research etc.

Of course, this is just a rough classification. E.g. a high paid 
luxurious private school/college may have more facilities than some 
public school/college.

- An additional reason for allowing this type of tagging, is that you 
can symbolize the actual buildings involved in a distinct way / color in 
a style.

By the way, I agree not all buildings on an e.g. an amentiy=university 
campus should by default be tagged building=university if there is a 
more appropriate tag. E.g., if the building is a garage, office or 
hospital just being part of the amenity=university campus grounds, tag 
the relevant tag and not generic building=university.

Marco


Op 7-12-2017 om 13:53 schreef 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.
>
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