<div dir="ltr">Please excuse a vastly off-topic response, but I can't stop reading this topic as "crematories". SCNR :P</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 18 Sept 2021 at 13:10, Anne-Karoline Distel <<a href="mailto:annekadistel@web.de">annekadistel@web.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>I linked three in a previous email which have several photos. I
      have come across some which have a commemorative plaque outside,
      so it's not just memory; it is recorded. <br>
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    <p>Anne<br>
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    <div>On 18/09/2021 07:46, Mateusz Konieczny
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      <div>Can you link photo of such place?<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Is there some building style/infrastructure there?<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Or is it case of people just remembering that some<br>
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      <div dir="auto">enterprise existed there?<br>
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      <div>Sep 18, 2021, 01:22 by <a href="mailto:annekadistel@web.de" target="_blank">annekadistel@web.de</a>:<br>
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        <p>"we map what's present" - is that current use? What if it's
          vacant? Do we map what we see or what the locals see, i.e.
          "That looks like an interesting building, what is it?" - "Oh,
          that's the old creamery, but it closed in 1975." Do you tag
          that as <span style="font-family:"Courier New",Courier,monospace">building=yes</span> or <span style="font-family:"Courier New",Courier,monospace">building=industrial</span> or whatever the
          outcome of this discussion will be?<br>
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        <p>Anne<br>
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        <div>On 17/09/2021 23:53, Dave F via Tagging wrote:<br>
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          <div>On 17/09/2021 20:44, Yves via Tagging wrote: <br>
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          <blockquote type="cite">Building=church is not used because
            it's a place of worship, but because the building have a
            church architecture. <br>
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          <div>If I was to build a residential property in a style that
            I, or more importantly, you perceive as a church; & to
            then say it should be tagged as a church, even though it's
            *never* been one, is ridiculous.<br>
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          <div> <br>
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          <div> The building:use tag inappropriately expects
            contributors to make guesses bases purely on a building's
            visual appearance. <br>
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          <div> What does a 'architecturally like a church' church look
            like? it's so varied. <br>
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          <div> This is a church: <br>
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          <div> <a href="https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/mud-hut-used-as-church-zambian-bush-170127141.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/mud-hut-used-as-church-zambian-bush-170127141.jpg</a>
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          <div> In OSM we map what's current. When a building stops
            being used as a church/school/whatever, the building tag get
            s amended appropriated;. If someone wishes to record what it
            was, the historic tag, or similar can be used. <br>
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          <div> DaveF <br>
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