[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Additional parking types for amenity=parking

[Roy Wallace]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:11 PM, "Marc Schütz" <schuetzm at gmx.net> wrote:
>> > Since they're buildings wouldn't using a building=* tag be more
>> > accurate in describing them?
>>
>> Sure, they're buildings - but that just means a building tag should be
>> used *in addition to* tags giving more details.
>
> Not necessarily. If you only want to express the building type, building=garage(s) is sufficient. This usage is already described in the original building proposal:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Building

Sure, if you *only* want to express the building type.

If you also want to express usage: "See also... amenity= - (to
describe what the building is used for for example school, theatre,
bank, ...)" (source: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Building)