Tagging everything as houses without checking would be wrong. This way you damage data and turns building=house into duplicate of building=yes
Please, do not make this kind of thing. 25 Jan 2020, 09:51 by [email protected]: > 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
