[Tagging] Mapping generic sheds

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Thu May 3 22:06:34 UTC 2018


On 04/05/18 07:44, Rachele Amerini wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm mapping rural areas of Central Asia after an expedition there.
> I've found a lot of sheds, where many animals coexisted (sheeps, cows, 
> horses...). I'd like to map them but I'm in doubt about the right tag:
> *building=shed* "refers to a simple, single-storey structure that is 
> used for storage, hobbies, or as a workshop. They can often be found 
> in a back garden, on an allotment, or at site with groundskeeping" 
> which is not.
> *=stable* refers to horses
> *=cowshed* refers to cows
> *=sty *refers to pigs
>
> I think would be better in this case to use something more generic 
> like *cattleshed, *but this would be a new tag.
> Any suggestion about how proceed?
>

Best fit for the moment is

building=farm_auxiliary

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dfarm_auxiliary

You could add some sub tags? Such as

farm_auxiliary:function=sheeps;cows;horses;* farm_auxiliary:architecture=shed/*

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