[Tagging] Proposed feature - RFC - Military Bases

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 07:54, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> Dec 27, 2020, 22:49 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:
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> On 25. Dec 2020, at 22:37, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
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> but then found building=military. There have been other comments made
> about specifying things as closely as possible for data purposes, so I
> think building=military would be better than just building=yes
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> I am not overly enthusiastic about building=military
> It’s very generic and not really a building type, rather a group of
> building types, like building=residential which can be apartments, detached
> houses, dorms, villas, duplex, skyscrapers, etc.
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> Yes, but sometimes it will be useful like building=residential is
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> "it is something residential, unable to specify in more detail, I give up"
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Yes, which is why I made the comment about data searching - "How many
military installations are there in <insert name>?"

On the subject  of naming everything as accurately as possible, does
anybody else have any opinions about the "leaving things anonymous" v
"labelling & naming every building" options? Only one response so far to
what I think may be a pretty important topic?

Thanks

Graeme
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