Talk:Tag:landuse=civic admin

Is this certained? Why not use Proposed features/landuse=governmental instead?

- Governmental is who owns it, not it’s purpose. Civic is a purpose - to serve the citizens in some fashion. We have military, dams, parks, and other “governmental” lands, but many different purposes.”Civic” was designed to be a brother to the other landuses, military, commercial, etc, but not explicitly only for public legislation or administration.

Landuse=civic_admin was a compromise at the time because landuse=civic was seen as too broad. We have building=civic, so landuse should have one too, but people disliked it. I split =civic into =civic_admin, which is more than just city halls, and civic_services, which were for governmental complexes that offer many amenities on a single named land.

All of them failed because people on the mailing list seemingly lived in areas with few government complexes (very rare in California, for example) whereas I am trying to map the dense multi-building/multifunction complexes in Japan, but since people have little familiarity of the differences nor the public’s interaction with the facilities, they all became abandoned proposals and I completely gave up mapping city centers because there is no will to fix the incomplete and contradictory tagging schemes for most of the governmental functions besides the few famous types of services they operate.