<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Fr., 13. Sept. 2019 um 15:20 Uhr schrieb Dave F via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 11/09/2019 14:50, Paul Allen wrote:<br>
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> I said that if it was a church and looks like a church then tag the building as a church even if it now functions as something else.<br>
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Buildings don't have a 'type'. There's no 'class', no standard <br>
architectural style or size. A quick image search proves that.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>maybe you should extend your search, and go beyond images ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>The typology of buildings is for example a subject in architectural studies at the university ("Gebäudekunde"). You will find tens of thousands of books about building typology (usually each dealing with only a narrow topic, e.g. hotels, hospitals, office buildings, production buildings, specific types of apartment buildings, specific military buildings, etc.)</div><div><br></div><div>A supermarket, prison church or townhall will typically by recognizable as such (with the exception of those that are built on purpose to not stand out), as will a hotel, an office or a residential building. Sure, you do not need an office building to set up an office, but this doesn't mean there aren't office buildings.<br></div><div><br></div><div>buildings do have a type, but of course you're right, if you look at a very generic type like "residential" you will find all kind of dwellings and you won't recognize a common style or type. To recognize similarities, you'd have to go into more detail, e.g. terraced houses (that's clearly a kind of residential building type, with usually one unit per entrance (may be split now), a narrow garden to the back (usually), etc.). <br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
OSM "is a place for mapping things that are both real and current"<br>
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'building=*' is to indicate its current usage.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>no, its current building type.</div><div><br></div></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Martin<br></div></div>