On 12/10/2022 18:56, Evan Carroll wrote:
But in some places,
mappers have been more rigorous about respecting each building's
architectural origins.
This is all 100% new to me. Where is it documented that a "shop" in a
detached house should be mapped as a detached house, and not a shop?
Where is the notion of "architectural origins" documented.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Buildings
(which is the first page that I got when I searched the wiki for
"building") has a prominent example "Tenement house containing a church,
it is still building=apartments not building=church" (one of the
pictures on the right; the one below it is the opposite situation).
I thought we could treat the wiki as authoritative and everything else
not in the wiki as a wrong or mistaken, or unsupported?
No. The wiki is maintained by volunteered on a "best efforts" basis, by
human beings who may not have the same vision of what keys are used
for. That's why you'll see discussion on this list and other places
saying things like "someone has changed wiki page X to say Y, which is
wrong".
Sometimes there are long threads discussing exactly what people in
different places mean by a certain form of tagging -
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/use-of-bicycle-designated-vs-bicycle-yes-outside-of-germany/3230
is a recent example. No-one there is "wrong", because they're
explaining how they use that tag and how other people use it locally to
them.
Best Regards,
Andy
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