[Tagging] man_made=works

[John Eldredge]

The "abandoned" or "disused" tags are for a structure that is not currently 
being used for anything. If the structure is currently being used for a 
different purpose, it is not abandoned or disused. Nonetheless, you can 
often tell what its original purpose was from the shape. You can often tell 
the original purpose from farther away than you can tell the current usage, 
so it is useful to tag both the building's characteristics as well as its 
current use.

-- 
John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot 
drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.



On May 29, 2015 5:12:26 PM John Willis <johnw at mac.com> wrote:

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>
> > On May 30, 2015, at 12:41 AM, Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> wrote:
> >
> > But if not, we have no system, just historical cases and a lot of 
> exceptions. I think it's time to try to make some rules instead.
>
> I though there was some tag prefix like disused: or abandoned: that could 
> be used with the building=industrial to note what its original purpose was for.
>
> Maybe you are just supposed to use building=church and shop=poodles for a 
> church that was converted into a poodle shop - but i imagine that would be 
> only if it was really really obvious that it was a church, not just by its 
> shape, but by the presence of original fixtures and ornamental architecture 
> - not just that it has a steeple on one side.
>
> There has to be some threshold - there are Hundreds and hundreds of  7-11s 
> that closed in Japan that are now repurposed - but you know exactly that it 
> was a 7-11 based on architecture alone - but i don't feel tagging 
> building=convenience_store + shop=poodles on it helps anyone.
>
> Javbw
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