Tag:landuse=education

landuse=education is a generic landuse tag for an area predominately used for educational purposes/facilities.

Educational facilities here means primarily amenity=kindergarten, amenity=school, amenity=college and amenity=university. Other facilities that are more commercial educational facilities, such as amenity=dancing_school, amenity=driving_school and so on tend not to be covered by this landuse and fall under landuse=commercial.

A landuse=education usually exist in conjunction with an amenity=kindergarten;school;college;university. This connection can either exist at the area itself, or as elements within this area, or through membership in a site relation.

Use cases

Single facilities

For an area/ground that is only used by one facility. In this case it is not necessary to use landuse=education because the amenity=kindergarten;school;college;university already imply the landuse. However, it is optional that these areas are also marked with landuse=education.

Multiple facilities on one site

If multiple facilities share one ground, the ground is mapped as landuse=education. If necessary, if the terrain has its own name, this can be specified via the key name=*. Inside the education-area the different facilities should be marked as nodes or as buildings.

Transition (amenity=school)

Before the introduction of landuse=education, grounds shared by multiple educational facilities have sometimes been mapped as an (additional) amenity=school. In cases where this entity refers only to the grounds and not the educational facilities tagged separately within, consider adding the landuse=education tag to it. The amenity=school tag can stay until rendering support for landuse=education has landed in order not to degrade the map for users in the mean time. While this is tagging for the renderer, the proposal for landuse=education included this transitional strategy to address a point of criticism raised by mappers who had appropriated amenity=school as a tag for (shared) campuses.

It is helpful to add fixme=Remove amenity=school when landuse=education is rendered. to indicate the reason amenity=school is kept for now, and to enable mappers to easily find such areas when rendering is more broadly available.

Rendering

• The area is currently rendered by OsmAnd in its pedestrian layer, where it is given the same yellow as amenity=school areas.
• OSM Carto: not rendered. Issue open for 3938 days. Declined pull request

Possible tagging mistakes

More details at taginfo

More details at taginfo

• landuse=school

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See also

• amenity=university – A university, an institute of Higher Education
• amenity=college – An institute of Further Education or Continuing Education, e.g. a Community, Junior or Career college.
• amenity=school – A primary or secondary school (pupils typically aged 6 to 18)
• amenity=kindergarten – A kindergarten or preschool
• landuse=school and landuse=education usage history on a graph