[Tagging] Mapping pergolas/arbors

Mark Bradley ethnicfoodisgreat at gmail.com
Sat May 21 16:52:22 UTC 2016


> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 08:12:12 +0200
> From: Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com>
> To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"
> 	<tagging at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Mapping pergolas/arbors
> 
> Why not the established shelter_type [1], which is used over 69.000 times according
> to taginfo [2]
> 
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shelter_type
> [2] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=shelter_type
> 
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 6:09 AM, David Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I would discourage the use of type as a key here as it is used to
> > differentiate between relations. Suggest shelter:type or something similar.
> > Cheers
> > Dave



Okay.  Since this tag is established, I'll use amenity=shelter, followed by shelter_type=pergola.

Mark Bradley




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