How come shelter_type=public_transport is a building?

Communities Eesti (Estonia)
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TL;DR: can we please not tag non-buildings as buildings?

It really grinds my gears when a transit stop shelter is tagged as a building when it’s NOT made out of brick and mortar. Wiki entry for shelter_type=public_transport does not include a building=yes tag. There are 426 occurrences of such tag combos in Tallinn alone. Edit: 269. Here’s the proper query and image as Overpass Turbo seems overloaded at times:

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On the other hand and to make things more “interesting” then, in my humble opinion this can be tagged as a building, while run of the mill transit shelter is not.

Please do air your grievances. Eager to read them.

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Absolutely agree. shelter=yes is all we need.

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I’ve had the same problem with them, but, unfortunately, I didn’t the answer I’ve hoped for.

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Quote from the linked thread and the wiki on buildings:

The building tag is used to mark a given object as a building. In OpenStreetMap, a building is a man-made structure with a roof, standing more or less permanently in one place.

Shelter with a roof being a building reminds me a story of Diogenes and Socrates, where the latter stated something like “a man is a featherless biped” to which former brought a plucked chicken exclaiming “behold, a man!”

I have to admit that I used to follow by example. When I saw transit shelters tagged as building=yes I figured that this was the norm. Started adding silly things like round roof with height (they used to be like that, as was the fashion at the time). Anyways, after reading the wiki, asking on Mastodon and wondering why on lawd’s green earth are public transit shelters buildings, started removing the tag.