[Tagging] To mark as covered, or to not mark as covered?

[Brad Neuhauser]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Richard <ricoz.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 01:09:56PM -0500, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
> > If this is like many fuel stations, it's probably just a roof with no
> > walls. Typically, I've seen those tagged building=roof. In that case, the
> > covered=* tag seems redundant.
>
> true, but I consider building=roof somewhat poor as the roof isn't
> usually floating in the air but there are pylons, sometimws one or
> more walls and often a building attached.
>
> Richard
>
> does it make a difference whether the roof is attached to walls (or a
building), or whether it's on pylons? the wiki for building=roof says it
can be used when a structure is open on at least 2 sides, which would seem
to include a structure with no walls.
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