[OSM-talk] Tagging general buildings

[OJW]

On Friday 16 November 2007 17:20:03 Gregory wrote:
> There is no tag for a conference centre. I would propose one but I think
> there should also be a general tag for buildings so that names can be
> rendered.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Building_attributes

building=anything should be rendered in most programs (since renderering 
programs can't be expected to have a list of every possible building type)