the building tag is used when no other key would be appropriate for it. The bucket of amenities isn't really that full since some already have a commonly used key, so a re-direct or autocorrect recomendation can be made. Iats (building) also used as a secondary tag, where the feature described is not obvious to the end-map user that its a building, and if it houses different activities. and when describing the area around the building where another key wont do, the landuse tag makes the assumption that it's flat.
so in this case the entire building is used for 1 primary purpose and it can easily be grouped in a 'community service' as well as an 'amenity' and it's commonly known that a homeless shelter is a building. .... as would be defined in the descrption. thanks, i was wrong. cheers, sam On 9/4/10, Cartinus <carti...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Saturday 04 September 2010 11:06:16 Peter Wendorff wrote: >> Hi. >> Should not building=homeless_shelter be correct - and thus more precise >> than the big collection "amenity"? >> >> Peter > > No the building tag is to describe things about a building itself, but not > what just happens to be in it. > > We don't have shops under building=shop, police stations under > building=police_station, ice rinks under building=ice_rink, etc. > > Besides that would just replace the big bucket of unorganised amenities with > a > big bucket of unorganised buildings. > > > -- > m.v.g., > Cartinus > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
