[Tagging] How to tag an industrial breeding facility?

Joseph Eisenberg joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com
Thu May 27 02:02:08 UTC 2021


Pig sty yes
Chicken sty no
A chicken coop is a usually small structure for keeping chickens
- Joseph

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 5:52 PM Bert -Araali- Van Opstal <
bert.araali.afritastic at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> 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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