Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-09 Thread Philip Barnes
On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 00:55 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday, December 8, 2013, Jonathan wrote: It's the sort of building that houses the security guards or gatekeeper. They operate the gates to allow entrance to or exit from the site. May contain security guards

[Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Jonathan
Hi all, Just went to tag a building at the main entrance/exit to an industrial site and couldn't really find a well used or documented tag. It's the sort of building that houses the security guards or gatekeeper. They operate the gates to allow entrance to or exit from the site. May

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 15:28 +, Jonathan wrote: Hi all, Just went to tag a building at the main entrance/exit to an industrial site and couldn't really find a well used or documented tag. It's the sort of building that houses the security guards or gatekeeper. They operate the gates

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Richard Welty
On 12/8/13 10:39 AM, Philip Barnes wrote: Where I have worked, and industrial sites that I have visited over my long career, that building is always called 'the gate house'. I would suggest building=gatehouse, or gate_house, although neither had any previous useage :) same in the US. this

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Jonathan
Wikipedia suggests a gatehouse as a medieval construction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatehouse building=gatehouse has been used 19 times, but in what context I don't know. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 08/12/2013 15:39, Philip Barnes wrote: On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 15:28 +, Jonathan

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Richard Welty
On 12/8/13 11:14 AM, Jonathan wrote: Wikipedia suggests a gatehouse as a medieval construction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatehouse building=gatehouse has been used 19 times, but in what context I don't know. wikipedia is sometimes slightly off the mark. gatehouse (or gate house) is in

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread ael
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 04:14:33PM +, Jonathan wrote: Wikipedia suggests a gatehouse as a medieval construction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatehouse building=gatehouse has been used 19 times, but in what context I don't know. +1. Agree that it is might be ambiguous.

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Tod Fitch
It has been a while since I worked in a facility with such a building. But I recall it being called a guard shack or guard house. Taginfo has only one guard_shack (and one guard_booth) but does have 100 guardhouse entries. The few building=guardhouse entries that I looked at via bing imagery do

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 08:51 -0800, Tod Fitch wrote: It has been a while since I worked in a facility with such a building. But I recall it being called a guard shack or guard house. Taginfo has only one guard_shack (and one guard_booth) but does have 100 guardhouse entries. The few

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/12/8 Jonathan bigfatfro...@gmail.com Wikipedia suggests a gatehouse as a medieval construction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatehouse building=gatehouse has been used 19 times, but in what context I don't know. there's also another usage of the term in the context of dams:

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Btw, how would you call a small structure like this: https://maps.google.it/maps?q=romll=41.879601,12.496149spn=0.00167,0.003473safe=offhnear=Rom,+Latiumgl=itt=mz=19layer=ccbll=41.879677,12.496087panoid=48p0hYYLAJMPzfxFbg_W5Acbp=12,22.08,,2,4.41 These are used by the police to control traffic

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 19:17 +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Btw, how would you call a small structure like this:

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread John F. Eldredge
Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 08:51 -0800, Tod Fitch wrote: It has been a while since I worked in a facility with such a building. But I recall it being called a guard shack or guard house. Taginfo has only one guard_shack (and one guard_booth) but does have

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 08/dic/2013 um 19:36 schrieb Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk: The English term would be a police box (police_box). thank you. My suggestion is to use building for the structure. Maybe we can add more tags later regarding the capabilities (e.g. capacity(?) for the amount of people

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Dave Swarthout
I like building=gatehouse for those buildings that typically sit beside an access gate. There are numerous such buildings in Thailand where I do the bulk of my mapping. It seems every big corporate campus has them as do all gated_communities. To me, security_post implies soldiers rather than

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday, December 8, 2013, Jonathan wrote: It's the sort of building that houses the security guards or gatekeeper. They operate the gates to allow entrance to or exit from the site. May contain security guards who patrol the fences/area. May contain security equipment such as camera

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Andrew Errington
On 9 December 2013 15:55, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Pinkertons call this a Police Box, at least in the pacific northwestern US, and even prior to the recent Doctor Who fad. Recent? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Recent in the sense that only public broadcasting nerds had access to 30+ year old reruns until about 5 years ago in the US; it wasn't exactly mainstream by any stretch. On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Andrew Errington erringt...@gmail.comwrote: On 9 December 2013 15:55, Paul Johnson