[Talk-GB] Mass removal of building=hall_of_residence

[Nathan Case]

Another tagging scheme for university halls of residence I've seen (and 
used) is ``building=residential + residential=university``.

I do like this approach as the building value should describe the 
building type rather than its use. Though perhaps halls of residence do 
differ from normal apartments as they generally share a communal kitchen 
(and sometimes communal bathrooms).

Agree this should have all been discussed more widely before large scale 
changes were made to existing tags.

On 06/02/2023 23:25, David Woolley wrote:
> On 06/02/2023 21:38, nathuary via Talk-GB wrote:
>> They were likely just following the suggestion of the 
>> building=dormitory page, which suggests building=hall_of_residence as 
>> a possible tagging mistake since this 
>> revisionhttps://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:building%3Ddormitory&oldid=2427402.
>
> This also seems to suggest changing amenity to building, when I 
> thought these were intended to be orthogonal.
>
> Actually, thinking about, it some of the privately run UK student 
> accommodation might be better described as building=apartments!
>
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