[OSM-talk] Problem with usage of other values than yes for key building

[Florian Lohoff]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 09:35:58PM +0100, Stefan Keller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with the usage values other yes in key building.
> It seems to me that this any other usage of building=yes (for area
> type) is almost purely redundant.
> 
> When looking at taginfo [1], building has following three top most key usages:
> yes  119260798 85%
> house 11592812 8%
> residential 3145218 2%
> ...
> 
> So, other than "yes" has a frequency of 15% and less.
> 
> Then, when looking at the wiki page [2] it mostly points to
> alternative tags, like
> * building=apartment => tourism=apartment
> * building=hotel => tourism=hotel
> * building=warehouse => shop=department_store (no indication to that
> in warehouse
> * building=church/cathedral =>  amenity=place_of_worship
> * building=school/hospital => amenity=school/hospital

amenity=school is for the whole area of the school not just the
buildings and should carry the name of the school. The buildings
of the school could be tagged as building=school.

This is how i tagged for the past couple of years and how for example
MapOSMatic interpreted amenity=school.

This is how 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dschool

Shows the usage of the tag.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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