How to tag buildings undergoing demolition?

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

@Tolstoi21

Oh, indeed! I linked to the incorrect wiki page. Thanks for the note! The rationale for deprecating building=abandoned is explained in that Wiki page thusly:

and it also has

Therefore use an appropriate building=* value, plus abandoned=yes if the building needs major repairs prior to reuse (for example, broken windows, leaking and damaged roof, etc).

In theory abandoned:building=* could be also used, but it is generally a poor idea as disused building is still a building.

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

maybe these pages should phrase it more clearly? Feel free to improve

[Tolstoi21]

@Mateusz_Konieczny

@Tolstoi21

Oh, indeed! I linked to the incorrect wiki page. Thanks for the note! The rationale for deprecating building=abandoned is explained in that Wiki page thusly:

and it also has

Therefore use an appropriate building=* value, plus abandoned=yes if the building needs major repairs prior to reuse (for example, broken windows, leaking and damaged roof, etc).

In theory abandoned:building=* could be also used, but it is generally a poor idea as disused building is still a building.

Right. Both points would seem to me to be further arguments against the value of =demolished residing in the building= key which was @vectorial8192’s proposal in the original post.

Since the demolished:-prefix is already used for completely demolished buildings, maybe a new prefix (being_demolished:?) or a new supplementary tag (being_demolished=yes?) would work better. Primarily for buildings whose demolishing lasts for a very long time, that is.

[Kinsio (Kinsey Favre)]

@Kovoschiz

as demolition:*= following construction:*= may be confused with demolished:*=

I’m not sure I agree with this. demolition:* feels like by far the most logical solution here in my mind. The alternatives I’m seeing floated in the thread feel like a solution in search of a problem.

[Jorieke_V (Jorieke Vyncke)]

Maybe in_demolition:* could do it?

[pavvv]

In my opinion, the two options are:

• building=demolition
• in_demolition=yes

But a prefix won’t work because it will kill the rendering which isn’t wanted because if buildings undergoing construction are rendered then those undergoing demolition definitely should be as well.