[Tagging] wiki building=hangar

[John F. Eldredge]

didier2020 <didier2020 at free.fr> wrote:

> Le dimanche 20 janvier 2013 à 19:27 +0100, fly a écrit : 
> > On 20/01/13 17:16, Philip Barnes wrote:
> > > Aeroway is not intuitive, whilst I understand it I would not use
> it.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Building = hangar makes more sense to me. A hanger is a building
> for storing
> > > aircraft but many are in use long after the airfield has gone.
> Their shape makes
> > > them identifiable as hangars. Maybe a historic tag should be in
> there somewhere. 
> > 
> > There is nothing wrong about using both tags if used for aircrafts
> and delete
> > the aeroway if the use changes.
> 
> so the french, italiano and deutch wiki are wrong when it's explain
> building=hangar is for storing good?
> 
> i can modify the french wiki but not all others language
> 
> cheers
> didier
> 
> 
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In English, a hangar is a particular type of building designed for storing aircraft, although it may subsequently be used for other types of storage, or even for a non-storage purpose.  Probably the most generic term for a storage building would be warehouse.

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