<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>The Oxford does not make that distiction. Generally, barn and shed are about what the building looks like. That would be consistent with building=*. The usage or function of the building is a much more fleeting attribute, which should imho be tagged separately. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Verzonden vanaf mijn Samsung Galaxy-smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------</div><div>Van: Volker Schmidt <voschix@gmail.com> </div><div>Datum: 04-05-18 10:52 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>Aan: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" <tagging@openstreetmap.org> </div><div>Onderwerp: Re: [Tagging] Mapping generic sheds </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>The problem is that (British) English does not have a word for a generic animal-stable. "stable" is for horses. "cow shed" is for bovines, "pigsty" for pigs.<br></div>In the US a "barn" may include animal sheltering, but not in UK-English.<br><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 May 2018 at 09:39, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br><br><div id="m_-150100079724435242AppleMailSignature">sent from a phone</div><span class=""><div><br>On 4. May 2018, at 07:23, marc marc <<a href="mailto:marc_marc_irc@hotmail.com" target="_blank">marc_marc_irc@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span>building=farm_auxiliary</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>farm_auxiliary:architecture=<wbr>shed/*</span><br></blockquote></div><span></span><br><span>this combination makes no sense.</span><br><span>building value is about appearance.</span><br><span>so if the appearance is a shed, then building=shed</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></span><div>+1, also building=stable or building=pigsty etc. would be ok</div><span class=""><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>farm_auxiliary:function=<wbr>sheeps;cows;horses;*</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>or building:usage ?</span><br><span>but a cow is not a usage, nor a function.</span></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div></span><div>for animal related features there is the key “animal”, the most used value is “yes” <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/animal#values" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/keys/animal#values</a></div><div>its wiki page suggests keys like cat=yes etc </div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Animals" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/wiki/Animals</a></div><div><br></div><div>IMHO for a pigsty pigs would be implicit.</div><div><br></div><div>building=farm_auxiliary is a more generic “I don’t know it well, but it’s part of a farm and not a residential building”-tag. I would prefer more specific building values if you do know better.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Martin</div><div><br></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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