[Tagging] building=bank

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am So., 26. Mai 2019 um 10:58 Uhr schrieb Gerd Petermann <
gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com>:

> Hi!
> I see nearly 1500 ways in OSM with the tag building=bank. Most of them are
> also tagged amenity=bank
> or have a node with amenity=bank inside.
> The wiki doesn't mention building=bank, and the validator in JOSM assumes a
> typo and complains
> "Unknown property value - Value 'bank' for key 'building' is unknown, maybe
> 'barn' is meant?"
>
> Since a bank is a rather special kind of building the tag seems quite okay
> to me.
> I wonder if JOSM should print no warning or maybe suggest to use
> building=yes instead?



building=bank seems ok for me. A bank will often be a specific buiding
(e.g. contain safe storage, be built according to high security standards,
be built in a representative style, etc.).
I agree JOSM should not issue a warning for it, did you try to open an
issue at josm.openstreetmap.de and see what they say?

The JOSM validator warnings about unknown tags are helpful to spot typos,
but an unknown tag (unknown to the validator) otherwise does not imply the
tag is problematic, these are just hints.

Cheers,
Martin
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