Johan C wrote:
>As often, it depends on the definition :-) : A tunnel is an underground 
>passage for a road or similar.
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tunnel

People use the word tunnel (or their equivalent word) in different countries in 
various contexts; many times these do include all or most passages through 
anything, when they are narrow relative to the length. It's then only natural 
that they use tunnel=building_passage or even tunnel=yes when they map these, 
totally without any regard to whether some engineers or geologists or 
encyclopedia editors have restricted the use of the word in their field in 
English to only under ground level tunnels.

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alv
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