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 davecor...@gmail.com: > 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, <> > talk-ie@openstreetmap.org> > wrote: > >> 24 Jan 2020, 23:05 by >> davecor...@gmail.com>> : >> >> > 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 >> >> Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org >> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie >> _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
