[Tagging] amenity=faculty?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Thanks for all comments! For now I created 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Duniversity#Complex_areas
to document complexity discovered during this discussion.

This way we can avoid remaking entire discussion next time and problem is at least documented.

Feb 6, 2020, 11:34 by voschix at gmail.com:

> Sorry, Martin, but what do you do, if you have a big multi-storey building and all you have is the door bell on the street level? Not map it?
> The Tuebingen example illustrates the problem. The relation has two nodes in a multipolygon as outer? That is not kosher either.
> Volker
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> On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 11:21, Martin Koppenhoefer <> dieterdreist at gmail.com> > wrote:
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>> Am Do., 6. Feb. 2020 um 11:01 Uhr schrieb Volker Schmidt <>> voschix at gmail.com>> >:
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>>> Padua, Italy, where I live, has a big university spread all over the place. This includes smaller sections being in apartments in buildings that are mainly used residentially. 
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>> yes, I am also well familiar with universities spread over many different buildings (or sometimes just a floor of a building although I have not yet seen an apartment used (for what? Office? lecture room? Probably not as a lecture hall, would not be suitable)).
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>> Common way to map this (unfortunately) is amenity=university on all parts, e.g. 
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/25074981
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>> Here's an example of a (not yet complete and in some parts overcomplete) multipolygon for the Universität Tübingen: >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8639592
>> (curiously, there are also node members ;-) ).
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>>> With other words "pieces" of the University come in all sizes and shapes, from what would be a typical campus to single apartments, where the "location" is the building entrance where the university institution is only one of many door bells.
>>> And I know that this is true of other universities and research establishments. 
>>> This situation made me think of (mis-)using the site relation for tagging.
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>> yes, but if we keep the small places like the apartment as nodes, it will not be possible to see that they are small, because a node can be any kind of size.
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>> Cheers,
>> Martin
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