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

[Phillip Barnett]

Not sure how to tag it now, but are you sure the name is correct? JW’s place of worship has always been known as a Kingdom Hall, not Wisdom.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Hall

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> On 23 May 2019, at 21:37, Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
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> Looking for some advice...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> This is the object in question:
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> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/308217826
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> Any suggestions gratefully received.
> 
> Mark
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