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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">13 Sep 2019, 21:37 by tagging@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">On 13/09/2019 16:14, Wolfgang Zenker wrote:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> <br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><pre wrap="">That would be kind of redundant, wouldn't it? We already use other tags
for the current function of a building,<br></pre></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">I'm repeating much of my of my previous comment, but no, the schema
which hijacked building=* to represent the original historical
function of a building never took off*. The vast majority of
contributors use it for it's current purpose. OSM isn't for the
mapping of redundant historical information. <br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">(...)</div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"> *building:use = 628 167<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> building!=yes = <span id="cwos" class="">65 221 930</span><br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">That is because in vast majority <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">current use is the same as suggested<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">by how building looks like.</div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I also often tag building=* about its<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">structure without tagging building:use<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Note also that building tag is not about<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">historical data.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Industrial buildings with fast food<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">inside is building=industrial<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Remodeled industrial building<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">that lost indicators of its original<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">use is not building=industrial<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">-+--<br></div><div style="16px"><div style="16px">Btw, can you link evidence that<br></div><div style="16px">building tag was originally for<br></div><div style="16px">current use, not for current appearance?<br></div></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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