<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><tt class="">There are also picnic shelters .. here they can have no walls
just a roof to shelter from the heat of the sun or the occasional
bit of rain. <br class="">
e.g.
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<br class=""></tt></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I would tag that as:</div><div><br class=""></div><div>amenity=shelter</div><div>building=roof ( <— this tag is really the point of the thread)</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:5e41c918-1304-e024-5753-5c669d27083e@michreichert.de" class=""><pre wrap="" class="">The following three are no buildings from my point of view because they
have one wall only. Either the two other walls do not fully stretch from
the ground to the roof or the shelter itself can be removed easily.
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</pre></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div>I would not use `amenity=shelter` at all and instead tag those as </div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=bus_stop" class="">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=bus_stop</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>highway=bus_stop</div><div>public_transport=platform</div><div>bus=yes</div><div>shelter=yes</div><div>bench=yes</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:5e41c918-1304-e024-5753-5c669d27083e@michreichert.de" class=""><pre wrap="" class="">There is building=roof but I would not use it for such shelters. They
are not treated as buildings by the cadastre, why should I do? (If they
are larger and have no walls, they
</pre></blockquote></div></div></blockquote>Anything that should show up on a 3D map needs a `building` tag and maybe a `height`.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:5e41c918-1304-e024-5753-5c669d27083e@michreichert.de" class=""><pre wrap="" class="">I think that nobody of us knows the whole world and that's why I ask you
not to decide on the default values of the whole world. If local mappers
think that a shelter is a building, they will tag it as such. If they
think that it does not qualify to be a building, they will not add the tag.
</pre></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div>In iD, the things we provide as presets, and how we render those things on the screen influence how people map.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>It sounds like from the discussion that we should not assume that shelters are buildings, and instead provide a field so that mappers can decide. Once we provide this field, we can expect a lot of people to use it. (I’m trying to engage the tagging list a lot more so that people feel consulted when I change things in iD.)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks, Bryan</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>