That's what I would think. It's extra time to go through the dialog boxes to set the building tags. I never bother and instead set the value when setting the address since that can be done automatically.
Since the majority of buildings are houses, you could mass tag them all as houses since that would be the least wrong tagging overall. On Sat, 25 Jan 2020, 08:48 Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-ie, < [email protected]> wrote: > It is typically much faster to add just > geometries. Maybe whoever was doing > this is not so interested in value of > building tag? > > Or maybe a mistake was made somewhere? > > 25 Jan 2020, 09:43 by [email protected]: > > > I'll rephrase the question. > > > > Why are these buildings being tagged with the least descriptive tag > rather than utilising a more descriptive tag which can be easily done in > approx 90% of cases from imagery? > > > > As I said, maybe I'm missing something here and there is a logical > explanation as to why this is being done, I just can't see it. > > > > Dave > > > > > > On Sat 25 Jan 2020, 07:51 Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-ie, <> > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> 24 Jan 2020, 23:05 by >> [email protected]>> : > >> > >> > I'm wondering if there is something I'm missing here. Why are we not > >> > tagging buildings with the correct tagging? > >> > > >> building=yes is correct > >> > >> Adding specific building type is also > >> correct and desirable, but mapping all > >> buildings as building=yes is also correct > >> > >> mapping just landuse=residential without > >> mapping any buildings is also correct > >> Similarly, mapping shops just with > >> shop typeshop=convenience/supermarket/etc > >> without specifying name=*, opening_hours=* > >> and other similar tags is also correct. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Talk-ie mailing list > >> >> [email protected] > >> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
