2017-12-19 9:09 GMT+01:00 Adam Snape <adam.c.sn...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > My own view of the building tag is that it notes what the building looks > like to someone on the ground. If it's a fairly generic building then > obviously the current use is a fairly good indicator. Something like a > church or pub though often still retains the characteristics of that type > of building even when internally converted. As long as it still externally > looks like a church or pub that is what I tag the building as. >
I agree with the idea that the overall look and feel is more important than the actual inner structure. Let me give an example which some might know: Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. It was built as a train station and operating as such from 1846 to 1884. This is what it looks today: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Hamburger_Bahnhof_%E2%80%93_Museum_f%C3%BCr_Gegenwart_%E2%80%93_Berlin%2C_Germany_-_20160615-02.jpg Clearly, that still looks like a train station, although it isn't used for railway for more than 130 years. In the inside, you see the result of the latest restructuring completed in 1996 (now it is a museum for contemporary art): https://www.google.it/search?q=commons+hamburger+bahnhof&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiW_LCL-pXYAhXIAsAKHYZvDAoQ_AUICygC&biw=1920&bih=985#imgrc=WWiFk-D3cThMNM : I would tag the building as building=train_station Cheers, Martin
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