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There is a city block that's known locally as the "civic center'. It contains a city hall, sheriff's station and miscellaneous government services. I want this civic center to stand out on the map. I did not find landuse=government and I am not sure if office=government is appropriate when tagging a whole block. Is there an accepted solution? There is an abandoned proposal for tagging civic centres/centers with amenity=local_government. But is it a good idea to adopt something that dies in the wiki? |
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My, fairly pragmatic, approach would be to use the following pretty widely used tags:
Combined together these different tags should be adequate both for plain rendered maps and apps which might want to consume the tags directly. There are a small number of landuse=government tags (55 at the time of writing), but the range of activities of government bodies does not make this a very useful tag, whereas identifying the operator or owner of the land as such provides the same information without compromising more specific uses of the landuse tag. I am intrigued. My first reaction was: "Commercial???" As I read on, it started making sense. I guess as long as visually it does not look like the shopping plaza next door, I am good with it. Testing to see what Mapnik will do with it. Thanks!
(25 Mar '11, 21:30)
ponzu
Yeah, my attitude is that these are basically offices & I don't get too hung-up about whether they belong to for-profit, not-for-profit business, local govt, national govt. It's realistic as my local council has just taken over a building which used to a bank back-office.
(25 Mar '11, 21:50)
SK53 ♦
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While I agree that at the moment there is not yet a well established method to tag public administration and services in greater detail (there is amenity=public_building to mention), in the future this will most probably change. We should employ some time in finding a solution.
(26 Mar '11, 11:14)
dieterdreist
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In reviewing my city's zoning maps (official stuff), I realized that we left out a pretty basic land use type, namely landuse=institutional. It covers schools, government, etc. It would have been perfect for my civic center. I added a note to the landuse key discussion page on wiki, not sure what's next.
(06 Apr '11, 05:03)
ponzu
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