[Talk-GB] Tagging a named building now used for a different purpose

[Mark Goodge]

Looking for some advice...

There's a building in the town where I live that was originally 
constructed by the Jehovah's Witnesses and named, by them, "Wisdom 
Hall". It hasn't been used by the JWs now for several years, ever since 
they moved to a new location. The building is currently occupied by a 
jewellery company which uses it as their workshop.

However, the building is still known locally as "Wisdom hall", and that 
also still appears on the nameplate on the front of the building along 
with the current owner's trading name.

I've edited it to change it from a place of worship to a commercial 
building, as that's what it now is. (The previous tags were added in 
2015, well after it had ceased to be a place of worship, so I suspect 
the editor then was working from historic information).

However, I'm a bit unsure how best to tag it. Normally, commercial 
buildings have the owner's name as the value of the 'name' key. I could 
do that here, and then move the building name into the 'addr:housename' 
key, but that seems inappropriate. So I've left the building name as it 
was, which reflects current local usage.

But then, where does the current owner's name go? For now, I've put it 
into the 'operator' key. But I'm not really sure if that's the right 
place either.

This is the object in question:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/308217826

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Mark