[Tagging] amenity=faculty?

[Jarek Piórkowski]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 11:44, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
> Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> writes:
> > Universities may have faculties, that often deserved to be mapped separately.
> > ...
> > 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.
> ...
>
> 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.

As a counterpoint, at my en_CA university established in 1957 we did
have faculties in the sense used by Mateusz. Schools were generally
ordered lower than faculties: School of Architecture was part of
Faculty of Engineering. Most sub-parts of faculties were named
Departments.

--Jarek