[Tagging] building=digester

Marc Gemis marc.gemis at gmail.com
Fri May 20 05:52:00 UTC 2016


Hi Dave,

Marc Zoutendijk wrote in his mail that he does not consider a
greenhouse a building.

m.

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Dave Swarthout
<daveswarthout at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know where the notion came from saying a greenhouse is not a
> building. It is not a residence but it is most certainly a building - it has
> doors, walls and a roof, Just because they're made of glass doesn't
> disqualify it from the building category.
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:29 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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