When a building structure is changed to reflect the new purpose (e.g. barn -> family house), I have no problem to map them as building=house.
But the building type of this McDonald restaurant [1] is so different from the blocks for large chains (DYI, electronics, Ikea, etc) you see along this way [2] that I think they can both be mapped as some kind of subtype of retail. Or, since we do not do subtypes, their own building type. [1] https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/J8z2tOByvXkCg_ChlQRvoA [2] https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/QqQGd0_acODhNvhowymVrQ On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 1:28 PM Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Marc Gemis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I like the idea of having a separate tag for buildings that are >> constructed to be restaurants, pubs, taverns, kro's etc. imho they are >> a different type compared to buildings for shops, especially >> supermarket-style buildings (which are large rectangles without too >> many indoor walls). I see no problem to use a different building style >> for a small shop in a town vs. a supermarket / mall / rectangle box. > > > > One problem is that current tagging practise does not give perfect > orthogonality between building > type and use. Another problem is that neither does the real world. > > Yes, there are two supermarkets in my town (there used to be three, and at > one point there were plans for > a fourth) which are/were clearly building=retail (in your interpretation). > But there are buildings on an industrial > estate which clearly are building=industrial but some of them are, or have > been, used for retail. Most of the > shops, restaurants and pubs in town are in what were built to be family > dwellings (houses). Some buildings > have been houses, then pubs, then restaurants, then pubs again, then shops, > then houses again. > > The ex-supermarket in town will shortly be turned to a variety of purposes > run by a church: part of it will become their > place of worship, another will be the town's food bank, another will be a > cafe and another will be a small community > area (well, those are the current plans). It's still building=retail because > it was built as a supermarket, but > arguably it could be tagged as building=yes. > > Many barns, stables and milking sheds in the area have been converted into > holiday cottages and look more like > houses than farm buildings (some older barns and stables which are still used > as such are difficult to distinguish > from houses using aerial imagery and even with a survey). > > Many churches and chapels around here have been deconsecrated and turned into > dwellings. > > Real life is messy. > >> However, I'm not sure whether gastronomic is the proper >> British-English word to use. I think the Brits are already using >> building=pub (perhaps only for a subclass of your 'gastronomic'. >> > There is an increasing blur between pubs and restaurants these days. Many > pubs serve meals. Many restaurants > serve alcohol. Some pubs exist in small hotels. > > Real life is messy. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
