[Tagging] building = house vs detached.

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 08:22:10 UTC 2018


On 27/07/18 18:11, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

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> sent from a phone
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>> On 26. Jul 2018, at 22:48, Mike H <1jgon6 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> maybe even adding to them as the pages are still pretty sparse on detail.
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> we have to be careful when making the definitions more specific (adding detail will result in this), as there will be differences how houses are built in different parts of the world (due to climatic and cultural differences and available building materials).

It can beneficial to give examples.

I like the East African Tagging Guidelines
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/East_Africa_Tagging_Guidelines

where roads are shown for urban and countryside. There are dramatic differences.




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