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

[Marco Boeringa]

Colin and others,

I think we have drifted a bit off of the original topic, my "original 
enquiry" was the notion that the "building=college" tag, with 15k uses, 
was not included on the building key page, and if it would be a good 
idea to include it.

 From there, there was discussion about landuse of schools, which IMO is 
already covered by "amenity=school/college/university", as the Wiki 
pages for these features have now for years stated that the entire 
(campus) grounds should be tagged amenity=x, while the actual buildings 
on there should use building=x (e.g. 
building=school/university/"college??" or more appropriate tag if e.g. a 
building=office)

And than we landed on the meaning of the vague term "college"...

I think, as the OP, I will personally leave it at this. With my first 
post, I just wanted to note the apparent disparity with the existing 
building=school/university. But it is not a big thing to me.

Marco


Op 8-12-2017 om 22:51 schreef Colin Smale:
>
> This is why the ISCED codes exist:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Classification_of_Education#ISCED_2011_levels,_categories,_and_sub-categories
>
> They are already used in OSM:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ISCED
>
> So the original enquiry can be addressed with building=school and 
> isced:level=*
>
>
> On 2017-12-08 22:30, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> sent from a phone
>>
>>> On 7. Dec 2017, at 19:31, Marco Boeringa <marco at boeringa.demon.nl 
>>> <mailto:marco at boeringa.demon.nl>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyway, no tagging scheme for education will ever be perfect, the 
>>> differences between individual countries and the usage of specific 
>>> terminology is vast.
>>
>>
>> while this is true, choosing good names for the tags still helps in 
>> reducing misunderstandings. "college" for example is not a very clear 
>> term for use on global scale, because it can mean different things in 
>> different places / context. Something more abstract like 
>> secondary_school or different words like vocational school or 
>> professional school, which describe a concept, would IMHO be better 
>> than college.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Martin
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