On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Claudius <[email protected]> wrote: > True. In german we say "Schutzhütte" (losely translates as "protection > hut") and the german wikipedia article shows good examples in pictures: > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzhütte (ignore the one in the lower > right corner). These "shelters" are only used as a protection from bad > weather. You won't voluntarily spend a night there and they won't have > any facilities or even power supply. > > Don't you call these "shelter" in English?
I'd call it a "hut". I suppose it's technically a "shelter", but from the description you gave, before I clicked on the link, I wasn't expecting something with four walls. A "shelter" is anything with a roof. It might have 0 walls, or it might have more walls, but if it has four walls I'd generally use a more descriptive name for it. I'm williing to go with the majority though. Right now, I'm tagging picnic-type shelters (see http://www.ci.burlington.wa.us/imageuploads/Media-322.jpg) as "amenity=shelter". This looks dumb when zooming in on the map, but I don't tag for the renderers :). _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
