[Tagging] building=digester

[Marc Gemis]

Martin,

so what is the definition of building in OSM ? "The building key is
used to mark areas as a building." from the wiki page is pretty
useless as definition. Neither the Building, nor the Buildings page
teach me what is considered a building and what not.

The building page just has a "number of examples", but it does not
make clear how I can decide whether a digester is a building or not.

It is also not clear to me why a water mill or wind mill are man_made
and not a building.

So what is the definition of building you are referring to ? Do you
digester is a building ?

regards

m

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2016-05-19 20:50 GMT+02:00 Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Marc Zoutendijk <marczoutendijk at mac.com>
>> wrote:
>> > That's because everything that is a building should be tagged as a
>> > building”
>>
>> so I looked at the wikipedia definition of building [1], and their
>> definition of non-buildings [2]
>> At this moment I think that digester/bioreactor belongs to the non-
>> building structures, as they list "Structures designed to support,
>> contain or convey liquid or gaseous matter, "
>
>
>
> actually, in osm there is some tradition in tagging non-building structures
> as buildings, indeed, there is no "non-building structure" key in OSM
> (man_made is far more generic and not referring to structures only). Yes,
> the term "building" has a more narrow meaning in language than what it is
> used for in OSM, and wikipedia reflects this, still, for OSM the osm wiki is
> relevant, not wikipedia.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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