[Tagging] Mapping generic sheds

[Philip Barnes]

On 4 May 2018 09:52:08 BST, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:
>The problem is that (British) English does not have a word for a
>generic
>animal-stable. "stable" is for horses. "cow shed" is for bovines,
>"pigsty"
>for pigs.
>In the US a "barn" may include animal sheltering, but not in
>UK-English.


Barn is widely used in UK English to describe these buildings. It seems the obvious choice. 

Phil (trigpoint) 

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>On 4 May 2018 at 09:39, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
>wrote:
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>> sent from a phone
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>> On 4. May 2018, at 07:23, marc marc <marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com>
>wrote:
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>> building=farm_auxiliary
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>> farm_auxiliary:architecture=shed/*
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>> this combination makes no sense.
>> building value is about appearance.
>> so if the appearance is a shed, then building=shed
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>> +1, also building=stable or building=pigsty etc. would be ok
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>> farm_auxiliary:function=sheeps;cows;horses;*
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>> or building:usage ?
>> but a cow is not a usage, nor a function.
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>> for animal related features there is the key “animal”, the most used
>value
>> is “yes” https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/animal#values
>> its wiki page suggests keys like cat=yes etc
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Animals
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>> IMHO for a pigsty pigs would be implicit.
>>
>> building=farm_auxiliary is a more generic “I don’t know it well, but
>it’s
>> part of a farm and not a residential building”-tag. I would prefer
>more
>> specific building values if you do know better.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> Martin
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