<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-12-16 14:44 GMT+01:00 John Willis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" target="_blank">johnw@mac.com</a>></span>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Semi temporary buildings are usually called portables. Schools I have been to in the US will have them in place for several years, though they lack a foundation and can be moved away whole or in sections as a truck trailer - similar to a mobile home. </blockquote></div><br><br>What I get from a google image search for portable building all looks perfectly fine as building in OSM:<br><a href="https://www.google.it/images?q=portable+building&oi=image_result_group">https://www.google.it/images?q=portable+building&oi=image_result_group</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Not sure if "portable" is a nice building type for OSM, I'd see this more as an attribute and use something like "cabin" or "hut" or "shed" (or whatever it is) to describe the typology (in terms of function and structure / aspect / image).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">You can find examples for temporary buildings also in looking at the designs for emergency shelter, eg.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">complete concrete shelter put up in one day:<br><a href="http://designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andy/00_aerobics2012/pop-up_sample_lesson/07.jpg">http://designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andy/00_aerobics2012/pop-up_sample_lesson/07.jpg</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">(this will be quite permanent due to the nature of concrete)<br><br>the opposite, a light-weight structure:<br><a href="http://designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andy/00_aerobics2012/pop-up_sample_lesson/03.jpg">http://designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andy/00_aerobics2012/pop-up_sample_lesson/03.jpg</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">this one is more like a tent, but if it sits there for years...<br><a href="http://designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andy/00_aerobics2012/pop-up_sample_lesson/02.jpg">http://designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andy/00_aerobics2012/pop-up_sample_lesson/02.jpg</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>african style:<br><a href="http://designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andy/00_aerobics2012/pop-up_sample_lesson/08.jpg">http://designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andy/00_aerobics2012/pop-up_sample_lesson/08.jpg</a><br><a href="http://designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andy/00_aerobics2012/pop-up_sample_lesson/09.jpg">http://designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andy/00_aerobics2012/pop-up_sample_lesson/09.jpg</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Who wouldn't call this a house (it's made of shipping containers):<br><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/160722280425530628/">https://www.pinterest.com/pin/160722280425530628/</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,<br>Martin<br></div></div>