Proposal:Civic centre
N.B. This was inconclusive due to a lack of discussion, and so got moved to the old proposed features page. I've resurrected it to get more discussion of the following proposal... TomChance 21:19, 26 March 2007 (BST)
Local Government offices/centre
I've put this back on the table as I think the original suggestion I made is quite important. However, to avoid the ambiguity of the original proposal here is a modified one:
* amenity=local_government * building=office * name=Civic Centre / whatever it is called
The purpose of the amenity tag is to highlight the central offices, which citizens will need to know. For other government offices a name and building tag would suffice. This is inspired both by my own needs and by existing practice with most other half-decent maps. We could go further and denote that "this building is a local government office" but "this building is the main office for local government", which is what civic centres are in the UK.
Old discussion (until Dec. 2006)
Tom Chance suggested using the Roman Temple motif for this one, but given this is on roadsigns for museum, I think it would be more appropriate for that. As civic centres are usually venues I suggest a musical icon, as shown User:David.earl October 19, 2006
- Civic centres (as usually marked on maps) are not for entertainment, they're the offices of local government! For the kind of public building you're thinking of the Proposed_features/Arts_centre value is more appropriate. TomChance 10:24, 20 October 2006 (BST)
- I think this may be a divided by a common language situation here. I live in Arnprior, Ontario, Canada, and the town-owned building that was named the Arnprior Civic Centre houses two ice rinks, a pool, and a community hall. (It's recently been renamed in honour of a resident of the town.) The offices of local government are in the Arnprior Town Hall. I think the term 'civic centre' is used for a variety of things, and should not be used as a tag name, because of that confusion. Perhaps some sort of 'government seat' or similar, but I don't like the civic centre name, because it means too many thing to too many people. - Cafemusique 10:45, 20 October 2006 (BST)
- This is going to get confusing =) In the UK, in my experience, we usually have a civic centre (housing council offices) and nearby an arts centre that is run by the council. For example in Reading there's the Civic Centre and the Hexagon. In St Albans there is a Civic Centre and the Alban Arena. If civic_centre is a confusing value then I propose we find something different like using building=office and amenity=local_government or some such thing. It's important to distinguish a civic centre from other government offices, because you go to the civic centre for things like public/council meetings, to ask about recycling services, etc. For the "civic centres" that contain ice rinks, arts centres, etc. there are plenty of amenity/sports/leisure tags to cover those things. TomChance 12:35, 20 October 2006 (BST)
Old vote
I'll vote against this, see why : [1] --Bartv 08:08, 29 November 2006 (UTC)