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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/04/2021 05:52, Graeme Fitzpatrick
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<div>As part of the military=bases proposal, military=barracks
were correctly re-defined as the buildings where military
personnel live & sleep only, rather than being used to
describe the entire base area.</div>
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<p>Or perhaps "incorrectly redefined"? Your page seems to
contradict itself - at the top it says:</p>
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<li><tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi
style="white-space:nowrap"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building"
title="Key:building">building</a></bdi>=*</tt> <i>mandatory
when the area is a single building</i></li>
<li><tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi
style="white-space:nowrap"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landuse"
title="Key:landuse">landuse</a></bdi>=<a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dmilitary"
title="Tag:landuse=military"><bdi>military</bdi></a></tt>
<i>mandatory when the area is not just one building</i></li>
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and lower down it says:</p>
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<blockquote type="cite">Prior to January 2021, this tag was
defined as "Military barracks where soldiers live and work", and
on older features this tag may still have this meaning, which is
similar to the newer tag <tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi
style="white-space:nowrap"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:military"
title="Key:military">military</a></bdi>=<a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:military%3Dbase"
title="Tag:military=base"><bdi>base</bdi></a></tt>.
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<p>So which part of your page is correct - the top part (which would
make your complaint about iD moot) or the bottom part (which seems
to try and redefine a tag that has an existing meaning in OSM,
which is surely a mistake)?</p>
<p>What iD does seems compliant with what the top part of what your
page says, and also with how I personally would always have mapped
a military barracks (but probably never have).</p>
<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Andy</p>
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