[Tagging] How to tag an industrial breeding facility?

Bert -Araali- Van Opstal bert.araali.afritastic at gmail.com
Thu May 27 00:48:55 UTC 2021


In English they call the building a "sty". Like chickensty, pigsty etc...

Greetings, Bert Araali

On 27/05/2021 03:23, António Madeira wrote:
> Ok, I see what you mean. Sorry for misunderstanding your last message.
>
> I know the name of these buildings in Portuguese, but I have no clue 
> about their name in English to use it in OSM tags.
> In a quick search I found references to "pig sheds" and "poultry sheds".
> https://www.epack.in/poultry-shed
> https://www.smartshelters.co.nz/livestock/pig-sheds-housing/
>
> Would this be a better solution?
>
> Regards.
>
> Às 20:47 de 26/05/2021, Paul Allen escreveu:
>> On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 00:31, António Madeira <antoniomadeira at gmx.com 
>> <mailto:antoniomadeira at gmx.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     You're saying that a barn is the same thing as a place where you
>>     breed 500 pigs or 3000 chickens, with all the specific equipment
>>     that each of these places demand?
>>
>>
>> No, I'm not.
>>
>> I'm saying that if I point at a house and ask you what it is, you'll 
>> say it is a
>> house.  If I point at a church and ask you what it is, you'll say it 
>> is a church.
>> If I point at a barn and ask you what it is, you'll say it is a barn.
>>
>> If I point at a building with 500 pigs in it and ask you what it is, 
>> you appear
>> to want to call it a livestock.  That is wrong.  I have no idea what 
>> the correct
>> name for it is, but I'm sure it is not a livestock.  So 
>> building=livestock is
>> wrong.  Some will mention building:for=livestock, but that still leaves
>> the problem that building=livestock is wrong for the same reason
>> that tagging a house as building=people is wrong.
>>
>> -- 
>> Paul
>>
>>
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