[Tagging] building=kiosk for guard posts?

[Tod Fitch]

In my regional dialect of American English, it sounds like we are discussing a “guard shack”. I don’t know if DuckDuckGo gives different results depending on where you are in the world, the the images here match my expectations: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=guard+shack&t=ffab&atb=v220-1&iax=images&ia=images

I see only 3 instances of “building=Guard_Shack” and one instance of “building=guard_shack” in taginfo so I guess not many mappers have decided that nomenclature is a good idea. For myself, I have been simply tagging as “building=yes” as nothing more specific seemed to be defined to cover them.

—Tod (n76)

> On Jul 16, 2022, at 1:56 AM, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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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