<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2017-12-19 9:09 GMT+01:00 Adam Snape <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam.c.snape@gmail.com" target="_blank">adam.c.snape@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My own view of the building tag is that it notes what the building looks like to someone on the ground. If it's a fairly generic building then obviously the current use is a fairly good indicator. Something like a church or pub though often still retains the characteristics of that type of building even when internally converted. As long as it still externally looks like a church or pub that is what I tag the building as.</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"></span></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I agree with the idea that the overall look and feel is more important than the actual inner structure. Let me give an example which some might know: Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. It was built as a train station and operating as such from 1846 to 1884.</div><div class="gmail_extra">This is what it looks today:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Hamburger_Bahnhof_%E2%80%93_Museum_f%C3%BCr_Gegenwart_%E2%80%93_Berlin%2C_Germany_-_20160615-02.jpg">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Hamburger_Bahnhof_%E2%80%93_Museum_f%C3%BCr_Gegenwart_%E2%80%93_Berlin%2C_Germany_-_20160615-02.jpg</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Clearly, that still looks like a train station, although it isn't used for railway for more than 130 years.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In the inside, you see the result of the latest restructuring completed in 1996 (now it is a museum for contemporary art):</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://www.google.it/search?q=commons+hamburger+bahnhof&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiW_LCL-pXYAhXIAsAKHYZvDAoQ_AUICygC&biw=1920&bih=985#imgrc=WWiFk-D3cThMNM">https://www.google.it/search?q=commons+hamburger+bahnhof&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiW_LCL-pXYAhXIAsAKHYZvDAoQ_AUICygC&biw=1920&bih=985#imgrc=WWiFk-D3cThMNM</a>:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I would tag the building as</div><div class="gmail_extra">building=train_station <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br></div></div>