[Tagging] amenity=faculty?

[Lionel Giard]

Each country (and maybe university) have different subdivision, and
sometimes even inside one university there are multiple different
subdivision co-existing : for example in Belgium i know at least a few
universities that use two separate division at the same time :

   - for the education part : Université > Faculty > School ;
   - for the research part : University > Sector > Institute.

All of these can overlap. One professor can be part of one (or multiple)
school and institute at the same time. And for buildings, an institute can
be spread across multiple building, sharing space with a school ... It is
not simple and purely administrative as there isn't always an unique
spatial localisation for each institute or school. At the moment, i
sometimes see the institute or school name on the building if it is
generally located in one place. I have also seen many research institute
tagged on a node with "office=research" as they are well known publicly,
but again that's not always the case.

Thus, it seems difficult to find "one" subdivision that will always work
worldwide ?! :-) Maybe that we should keep a generic word and allow
everything in it (like subdivision=* with the name of "School",
"Institute", "College",... if relevant) ?

Le mer. 5 févr. 2020 à 03:24, Jarek Piórkowski <jarek at piorkowski.ca> a
écrit :

> 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
>
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