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Dave Magill

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Registered: 2021-07-29

Posts: 2

Best practice for combined amenities? (Police/Municipal Bldg)

I'm a new OSM editor. A town manager ( 'Borough' since it's Pennsylvania ) has asked if I could add a label 'Municipal Building' to the feature currently labeled Police Department. This situation must be very common in small cities/towns. What is best practice/advice for tagging and naming combined amenities in a single building?
TIA.

maro21

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From: Wrocław

Registered: 2018-03-06

Posts: 1,114

Re: Best practice for combined amenities? (Police/Municipal Bldg)

I think the building should be tagged as building=civic and within its outline you can add amenities as points: amenity=police, office=government and other

Kovoschiz

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Registered: 2019-10-06

Posts: 128

Re: Best practice for combined amenities? (Police/Municipal Bldg)

On top of the above answer, what municipal service does it provide? You could consider `building=office` instead if it's mainly back-office with less public service.

The site (including carpark and everything around it in the lot) would be `landuse=institutional` (I don't like `landuse=civic_admin`).

Last edited by Kovoschiz (2021-07-30 02:18:17)

Dave Magill

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Registered: 2021-07-29

Posts: 2

Re: Best practice for combined amenities? (Police/Municipal Bldg)

Thank you both for the advice.
-- Dave