[Tagging] amenity=faculty?

[Greg Troxel]

Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> writes:

> Universities may have faculties, that often deserved to be mapped separately.
>
> For example university may take a large area, possibly disjointed area across the city
> but Faculty of dentistry, Faculty of forestry, Faculty of mathematics etc may be
> possible to be mapped as an area/node.
>
> Currently typical way to do that is to either
> - map name on building
> - create fake amenity=university with amenity=university
>
> It seems to me that amenity=faculty would be useful.

Perhaps, but beware that in US English, this is bizarre usage.  Faculty
refers to the set of people that are professors, not a place, and not a
subdivision of a university.

As an example, one well-known University has within in
  School of Science
  School of Engineering
  School of Architecture of Planning
  School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
  School of Management
and
  College of Computing

I'm sure other universities contain within them colleges, and I suspect
"school" is fairly common.

Really my point is that "Faculty of mathematics" is going to be
confusing to en_US speakers.  I have no idea if it's used in en_GB, but
I've never heard of it.


To your real point, it does seem make sense to have a tag for a
subdivision of a university.   But, often these sub-parts are
administrative and not physical.