Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-17 Thread Friedrich Volkmann
On 15.04.2015 11:54, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: People put building=* on any structure +1, and I am fine with it, just wanted to comment on not all tanks are buildings and point out that in OSM all structures are buildings. Bridges? Masts? Fences? Rails? Flagpoles? Power lines? Maybe

Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-17 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 17.04.2015 um 17:40 schrieb Friedrich Volkmann b...@volki.at: Bridges? Masts? Fences? Rails? Flagpoles? Power lines? Maybe everything that looks like a building, smells like a building and behaves like a building, but not all structures. bridges yes, the others not, see here for a

Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-04-15 6:15 GMT+02:00 johnw jo...@mac.com: we have building=farm_auxiliary, shed, and roof, so I think it is broader than the german definition. please note I wrote _also_ in the German definition, the English definition is the same. People put building=* on any structure +1, and

Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-14 Thread Janko Mihelić
A building=storage_tank only tells you what the building looks like from the outside, and what was it's first purpose. It could very well be an interesting hotel. uto, 14. tra 2015. 07:45 Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us je napisao: On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Mateusz Konieczny

Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-14 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
Sorry, I thought about using man_made=storage tank and in addition building=storage_tank (rather than mentioned building=yes). On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 22:43:18 -0700 Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: That ship has sailed. man_made=storage_tank is the standard. Maybe early on it should

Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-04-14 7:20 GMT+02:00 Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com: I think that building=storage_tank would be even better. you can use both. Building is about a building typology, while man_made is about a function. ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-14 Thread fly
Am 14.04.2015 um 11:34 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: 2015-04-14 7:20 GMT+02:00 Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com: I think that building=storage_tank would be even better. you can use both. Building is about a building typology, while man_made is about a function. +1 and not every

Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 14.04.2015 um 13:05 schrieb fly lowfligh...@googlemail.com: and not every storage_tank might be a building. well, this is another question. Strictly, most of them are not buildings, they are almost all structures, but OSM seems not to use this technical distinction. Technically,

Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-14 Thread johnw
On Apr 15, 2015, at 1:47 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Technically, buildings are a subset of man made structures, built for humans occupancy, btw also under German law (de: Gebäude vs bauliche Anlagen). we have building=farm_auxiliary, shed, and roof, so I think it

Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-14 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On the other hand, there are thousands of man_made=storage_tank without a building tag. A rendering engine could make the building implicit. Or a mechanical retag could add the building tag. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

[Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-13 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
For your inspection, upgrade of: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dstorage_tank To defacto status on the wiki (as it has 100,000 uses). Note the German page has always asked for building=yes on this feature, which strikes me as both reasonable and a rendering hack.

Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-13 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
I think that building=storage_tank would be even better. On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:54:56 -0700 Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: For your inspection, upgrade of: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dstorage_tank To defacto status on the wiki (as it has 100,000 uses). Note

Re: [Tagging] Defacto: man_made=storage_tank

2015-04-13 Thread Clifford Snow
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Mateusz Konieczny matkoni...@gmail.com wrote: I think that building=storage_tank would be even better. That ship has sailed. man_made=storage_tank is the standard. Maybe early on it should have been man_made=building, building=* but we have an accepted