[OSM-talk-ie] Tagging in the building tasks

[Mateusz Konieczny]

It is typically much faster to add just
geometries. Maybe whoever was doing
this is not so interested in value of
building tag?

Or maybe a mistake was made somewhere?

25 Jan 2020, 09:43 by davecorley at gmail.com:

> I'll rephrase the question. 
>
> Why are these buildings being tagged with the least descriptive tag rather than utilising a more descriptive tag which can be easily done in approx 90% of cases from imagery?
>
> As I said, maybe I'm missing something here and there is a logical explanation as to why this is being done, I just can't see it. 
>
> Dave 
>
>
> On Sat 25 Jan 2020, 07:51 Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-ie, <> talk-ie at openstreetmap.org> > wrote:
>
>> 24 Jan 2020, 23:05 by >> davecorley at gmail.com>> :
>>  
>>  > I'm wondering if there is something I'm missing here. Why are we not
>>  > tagging buildings with the correct tagging?
>>  >
>>  building=yes is correct
>>  
>>  Adding specific building type is also
>>  correct and desirable, but mapping all
>>  buildings as building=yes is also correct
>>  
>>  mapping just landuse=residential without
>>  mapping any buildings is also correct
>>  Similarly, mapping shops just with
>>  shop typeshop=convenience/supermarket/etc
>>  without specifying name=*, opening_hours=*
>>  and other similar tags is also correct.
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