[Tagging] amenity=faculty?

[Volker Schmidt]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 10:19, Lionel Giard <lionel.giard at gmail.com> wrote:

> The site relation was originally created for groups of features : power
> plant (wind turbine nodes spread over the land or sea), historical sites
> (often only some element (one tower, one building, ...) are historic and
> not the entire place) and parking (especially underground parking with only
> entrance mapped) spread over multiple locations. It fit exactly what is an
> university spread over a city or multiple places. The word "site" may be
> wrong, but that was the one chosen there and could be changed i suppose (i
> don't care for the word used myself ^_^). But creating a new relation type
> which would be with the same specification than a site relation would be a
> bit weird to me. It is overly complex for the usage no ? As the only
> interest is to have one feature in OSM that group all the university part
> and get all the university attribute. Is that really important that it is
> called "site" instead of "institution" ? :p
>
> In any case, it would be interesting to define it correctly in the wiki so
> other mappers can find a "how to map" (either on site relation or a new
> relation if more people are in favour for that). :-)
>

I support this opinion.

Additional use cases, beyond university and research organisations: city
administrations - we have here a number of decentralised admin offices that
use part of commercial buildings (no way to draw a polygon arund them.
All my examples are based on real local situations.
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