In English usage, a dwelling is a residence. So, a farmhouse would be an isolated dwelling; a building not used as a residence, such as a restaurant or train station, would be an isolated building, but not an isolated dwelling.
-- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:13:32 To: <m...@koppenhoefer.com> Cc: osm<talk@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Voting for place=isolated_dwelling is open On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > I agree to this, but the name "isolated_dwelling" was the translation > I finally found (neither in wikipedia nor in the dictionary) for the > German scientific term "Einzelsiedlung", which describes the smallest > entity of human settlements (below hamlets). I discourage the use of > farm as this is about usage and not about the size. Examples for > place=isolated_dwelling that are not farms are mills, forester's > houses, small isolated trainstations, restaurants or "houses". Of > course most isolated dwellings (at least in Germany) are indeed farms. Sub-hamlet? Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk