[OSM-talk-be] Imports in the North of the province of Antwerp

[Glenn Plas]

On 2013-09-18 05:59, Marc Gemis wrote:
> In the North of the province of Antwerp (north of Hoogstraten), you'll 
> find a lot of buildings that were imported by 3d shapes. Almost none 
> of them seems to match with the AGIV photos. The buildings are to 
> small, to big, rotated, have the wrong shape, there are phantom 
> buildings as well. Pretty enoying
> A lot of work has to be done there.
>
> Another thing I noticed is that someone indicates each church tower as 
> man_made=tower. An example is 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2388544510
>
> Is this correct tagging ? What do we want ?
>
Don't think it is wrong,  looking at this building in google streetview, 
there is a tower that matches the wiki definition:

' A tower is a building, which is multiple times higher than its 
diameter. It can stand alone or as a part of a bigger building. Towers 
can be built from wood, steel or concrete.'

But it could have been done better by adding : tower:type=bell_tower if 
it has bells (which by the looks of it it does).  I find the placement a 
bit odd (a node on the corner ?).

It's not common to do so however, it's not wrong.   It's been done by a 
dutch national, so that would explain perhaps the different habit.

Glenn