[Tagging] building=kiosk for guard posts?

[Philip Barnes]

The term gatehouse is certainly used to describe the buildings where security control access to large factories.

Phil ( trigpoint)

On Saturday, 16 July 2022, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
> I expected gatehouse to be used for something like
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carisbrooke_Castle_gatehouse.jpg
> or
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gatehouse_and_watchtowers,_Milton-Lockhart_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3529225.jpgor at least
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wingerworth_-_gatehouses_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2083247.jpg
> but if such distinction does not exist and is used also for meager container boxes
> then attempt to force distinction is unlikely to work.
> 
> can you confirm that gatehouse would be used also for such meager box,
> alse where there is neither gate nor house being present?
> 
> 16 lip 2022, 10:56 od phil at trigpoint.me.uk:
> 
> > Kiosk doesn't sound right to my native speaker ears, we normally call them gatehouses. Guard house if it is military.
> >
> > Phil (trigpoint) 
> >
> > On Saturday, 16 July 2022, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
> >
> >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STANTA_guard_post_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3176566.jpg
> >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guard_booth_20190426_135110.jpg
> >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guard_booth_CUHK.JPG
> >> https://www.gaport.com/guard_houses.htm
> >>
> >> how such boxes should be tagged?
> >>
> >> Is it OK to use building=kiosk? After all, architectural form is basically the same
> >> and retail function of kiosk can and should be tagged by marking 
> >> shop=kiosk or shop=ticket or shop=gift as a sepaarte object
> >> (or with building:use=* on the building)
> >>
> >> note - this is not about gatehouses that form gate over road
> >>
> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dkiosk definition
> >> restricts it solely to retail and I think that it makes sense to change it
> >>
> >> After all, there may be some tourism information kiosk, or one with
> >> police stationed inside or with guard or toll collector.
> >>
> >
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