2013/1/2 Simone Saviolo <[email protected]>: > IMO, the question is conceptually wrong.
+1 > What you are trying to tag is the > *use* of the building, and not a property of the building per se. Unless > it's a mall, a retail store's interior is not structurally different from an > office space or apartments - it could be converted, in fact. well, true and not. Some structures are highly specific for certain uses (e.g. a supermarket type of building, but also a hotel or an office building) and you could hardly make (economic) sense of them with a different usage, but this does not imply that a supermarket (for example) has always to be located inside a dedicated supermarket building (there are examples for instance in the center of Rome, where supermarkets are inside old buildings (often several buildings later unified at certain floor levels). In these cases the supermarket use doesn't (IMHO) make a supermarket building out of the building. You can (somehow) convert an office building into a hotel or vice versa, but it will not result in an ideal solution (building axxis distances, floor heights, vertical tubes for water etc.) according to current state of the art, and the more adapted/specialized a building is to a certain use the less easy it will be to transform it for another usage. Often older buildings will be torn down and re-built instead of transformed (but this depends on lots of factors like local building laws and culture, price of the land and price of the construction, budget of the client, value and transformability of the existing structure, intended use, etc.) cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
