Proposed automated edit: building=building to building=yes

General talk
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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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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)

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There is also building=farm_auxiliary

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Sounds good to me :+1:
Easy solution right

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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

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See below, well possible.

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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!" :smile:

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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 :slight_smile:

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I meant, it can be both, building=farm_auxiliary or building=farm; how can it be retagged automatically?

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What is better?

  1. Keep building=farm_building
  2. Change it to building=farm with a small chance that building=farm_auxiliary would have been better

I vote for #2

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  1. ask original mapper what they meant in message explaining difference between possibilities avilable
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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.

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What is the source for this “fact”?

If you did review a few I would have fixed them immediately…

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Source was building | Keys | OpenStreetMap Taginfo :

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with 37 cases asking every single mapper would take less effort than this discussion so far :slight_smile:

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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.

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Then we could add notes asking for local help.

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Yes, and likely longer than fixing these 41 cases:

Thanks, learned something new.

Of the 41 I did only retag 2 into building=farm.

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I submitted (as OSMBC for 777th weekly) announcement about plans to make this edit

I did it due to General discussion about bad impact of bot edits on data consumers was: Proposed automated edit: retag surface=paving stones:30 - #5 by Richard

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