Martin Vonwald <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just want to add my understanding of the building tags:
> 
> building=xxx (with no other tags like building:use): it looks like a
> xxx and is used as xxx
> building:use=xxx: it is used as xxx, but might not look like one
> building:type=xxx: it looks like xxx, but might not be used as xxx
> 
> So building=hangar to me is a building that was built as a hanger,
> therefore looks like one and is used as one. If I now add
> building:use=warehouse, it still looks like a hangar but is not used
> as such but instead as a warehouse.
> 
> Right/wrong/both of it?
> 
> regards,
> Martin
> 
> 2013/1/23 Ronnie Soak <[email protected]>:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> +1, generally building typologies (that's what the value of
> building
> >> is about) are not refering to the actual usage but to the type of
> >> building (e.g. a defiled church building which is now used as a
> disco
> >> would remain building=church without being an
> >> amenity=place_of_worship).
> >>
> > +1
> > And this is also (maybe) the difference between building=hangar and
> > aeroway=hangar
> > The first should be building type, the second usage.
> >
> >
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Sounds good to me.

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