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

[Edward Catmur]

The "building:name" tag would seem to be appropriate here.

Some examples:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/170028507
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/85945126
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/25911545

An alternative could be to have two objects: the building as a way, and the
tenant either as a node or as a (possibly fully) overlapping way sharing
nodes. I wouldn't go for this unless the building is sufficiently notable
e.g. having a Wikipedia article.

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 9:37 PM Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
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