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 building=guardhouse entries that I looked at via bing imagery do seem to 
> be the type of facility being discussed.
> 
> And the "modern usage" section on Wikipedia seems to fit: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardhouse

Guard house tends to be more on a military installation rather than a
civilian factory. Shack is a very American word...

Phil (trigpoint)


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