[Tagging] creameries

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

But on the whole "map the building as what it looks like" idea, we have
building=school.

What does "a school building" look like?

Thanks

Graeme


On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 05:10, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 18:28 +0200, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Sep 21, 2021, 14:10 by tagging at openstreetmap.org:
> > > > you are confusing "type" and "style". The building=church tag is
> > > > not necessarily about what would _you_ perceive as a church, but
> > > > about what the locals using it can perceive as a church.
> > >
> > >  No. _I_ (& thousands of other contributors) assess churches & other
> > > buildings by the sign above the door. When the sign is removed
> > > because it _stops_ being a church, the building tag is changed.
> >
> > So if
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Our_Lady_Assumed_into_Heaven,_5_Mariacki_square,_Old_Town,_Krak%C3%B3w,_Poland.jpg
> > would be converted to apartments/cinema/warehouse you would change
> > building=church to something else?
> >
> > I am dubious about your claim that thousands others map in this way.
> >
> > As far as I know current use is covered by amenity=place_of_worship
> > >
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_church_of_St_John_the_Divine,_Leicester#/media/File:St_John's_Church,_Leicester.jpg
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/89705810
>
> Is mapped as building=church, it is certainly not unusual in areas
> where churches have become redundant.
>
> It certainly looks like a church and would easliy be mistaken for one
> other than the skylights in the roof.
>
> This was converted to flats in the 80s I seem to remember.
>
> Similarly https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/485430919 is a former
> Maltings, now converted to flats but easily recognisable as a Maltings.
>
> https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6969051
>
> Creameries I do struggle with for the simple reason, and despite living
> in an area with a long history of cheesemaking, I cannot picture a
> building that I have heard called a creamerie hence what one would look
> like.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
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