I remember someone asking in
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/moving_building%3Dbuilding_to_building%3Dyes
discussion what my plan is when these building=building reappear
So this time I am proposing building=building to building=yes as a reoccurring edit in Mechanical Edits/Mateusz Konieczny - bot account/moving building=building to building=yes (again) - OpenStreetMap Wiki to avoid asking again 2032
building=building is an unexpected way to mark building without specifying its type
and therefore retagging this duplicate to building=yes would improve tagging without any information loss.
It makes life easier for various editor showing building type or doing anything special with building=yes
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emvee
(Emvee)
May 22, 2025, 7:24pm
2
Looking at taginfo (filtering on the value building) I see there are 424 building=building
’s and I am fine with fixing them (semi-)automated.
But looking at what else pops up with this filter I see quite some more values that could be fixed:
building=religious␣building
→ building=religious
building=farm_building
→ building=farm
church_building
→ building=church
building=commercial_building
→ building=commercial
etc. etc,
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thanks!
added detection of this kind of issue to my tool
I expect that it will be listed with other fixes, but may take some time (for start I will need to review them)
Sounds good to me
Easy solution right
farm_auxiliary is a perfectly legit tag, listed in JOSM building presets listed above firestation. Have used countless times for buildings on farmyards other than building=farm, global use 2.2 million per taginfo
See below, well possible.
I think they mentioned not as something that should be retagged but that building=farm_building
maybe should be building=farm_auxiliary
, not building=farm
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The first version that was emailed to me as a mailing list user hilariously contained " added detection of this kind of issue to Making sure you’re not a bot! "
yeah, and apparently this anti LLM scrapper tool shows catgirl while running some kind of test
appeared also on some UN sites, though apparently now https://policytoolbox.iiep.unesco.org/ uses custom images
I meant, it can be both, building=farm_auxiliary
or building=farm
; how can it be retagged automatically?
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emvee:
Keep building=farm_building
Change it to building=farm
with a small chance that building=farm_auxiliary
would have been better
I vote for #2
I would rather vote for #1 . There are not so many of them that they do any harm. But if you want to get rid of them by all means better retag them to building=farm_auxiliary
. There are many more of these than of building=farm
. So the likelihood of it being wrong is lower.
emvee
(Emvee)
May 23, 2025, 9:15pm
14
What is the source for this “fact”?
If you did review a few I would have fixed them immediately…
with 37 cases asking every single mapper would take less effort than this discussion so far
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Some of the tags are more than 10 years old, and some of the mappers who added them may no longer be available.
Wynndale
(Wynndale)
May 24, 2025, 5:44am
18
Then we could add notes asking for local help.
emvee
(Emvee)
May 24, 2025, 6:15am
19
Yes, and likely longer than fixing these 41 cases:
Thanks, learned something new.
Of the 41 I did only retag 2 into building=farm.