[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Homeless Shelter

[John Smith]

On 4 September 2010 20:37, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> the building tag is used when no other key would be appropriate for it.

How's this different than the current practice of dumping everything
under amenity=*?

> Iats (building) also used as a secondary tag, where the feature
> described is not obvious to the end-map user that its a building, and
> if it houses different activities.

This breaks down when it's not a single building, but a grouping of
buildings, or only half a building, or a single room in a larger
building like a multistory building...