<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Be careful what you wish for! Here is a list of around 370 other feature types that you will change the meaning of, if areas are always assumed to be property outlines and not building outlines. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/search?utf8=✓&q=building_area&type=" class="">https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=building_area&type=</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That’s a lot of cleanup challenges...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AFAIK (from memory) the notable exceptions are schools/universities, hospitals, gas stations, and power substations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Just to make sure we’re scoping the discussion properly, this is for POI kinds of features, not stuff like `landuse=*` or `natural=*`)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 29, 2017, at 11:02 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" class="">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">sent from a phone<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 29. Sep 2017, at 16:50, Bryan Housel <<a href="mailto:bryan@7thposition.com" class="">bryan@7thposition.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">So if we collectively decide to change `tourism=*` tags to be property outlines (like hospitals and schools), <br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">+1, I’d see it like this for all “functions”, regardless of the key (amenity, man_made, tourism, shop, historic, etc.)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">cheers,<br class="">Martin <br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Tagging mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org" class="">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>