[talk-au] Building outlines: Include covered open areas?

[edodd at billiau.net]

> Since the new NearMap imagery has been available to us, I have been adding
> a few building outlines here and there, but a scenario I come across often
> is whether I should include things such as pergolas, open air covered
> areas, carports, the shelters which covers the fuel pumps at servos and
> etc. Part of me says to mark them as a building, because it's a structure
> on the landscape and thus should not be excluded, but part of me says not
> to mark them, because they are technically not 'buildings'. What are our
> thoughts on this matter and who does what? Maybe they should be tagged as
> something else?

The main talk (or maybe tagging) list had long discussions very recently
about this under ¨what is a tunnel?¨.
I don´t remember the conclusions.