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Hej,
Jag vill tagga om ett par hus som i dagsläget är markerade som lägenheter (building=apartments). De håller egentligen en blandning av sopsortering, förråd, föreningslokaler och liknande utrymmen som hör till närliggande hyreslägenheter. Någon som har förslag på hur dessa hus bör taggas?

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Marc_marc på OFTC#osm föreslår “building=house building:use=storage”.

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Hi,

building:use seems reasonable to me. Use building=apartments + building:use=* if the building looks more like apartments than a house.

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building=service?

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From the wiki: “Service building usually is a small unmanned building with certain machinery (like pumps or transformers).” (image)

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Nice. There usually are some mechanical grinders in these buildings for coarsly grinding garbage! And there usually is som machinery for getting out the smell.

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A building that houses large machinery is usually a building=industrial.

In any case, survey is the best in these cases.

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Those small buildings for - temporarilly - storering garbage are rather alike in residential areas.

Then, there are other types of small buildings mentioned in the original question; eg for meatings etc. Often these buildings are for several different uses. Your answer sugests that building=service can’t be used in these cases. Someone sugested building:use=. What about building:use=multi (as in sporting facilities)?

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The building:use=* key is specially handy when the form or original purpose of a building differs from its present use. A service building can be used for multiple purposes by definition. I don’t think additional tagging is necessary in that case.

multi in sporting facilites is used with the sport key and means multi-sports. It is used when the facility is not specific for one sport, but can be used for several not specified sports. (i.e. building=sports_hall + sport=multi)

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Well, this is all very well known, in short a matter of notoriety. My suggestion was to use building:use=multi in analogy to the sporting tag.
Nevertheless there dosn’t seem to be a resonable way to tag small buildings inside (often) of residential areas which are used for either meetings, storage, garbage-collecting or other services to the residents and which in them self are not for living in.

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One can however find some - admittingly a small number of - building:use=multipupose, building:use=service or building:use=storage in the osm-database!

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You can find any tags you like in the OSM database.

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I use building=yes when I can’t find anything better.

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We all do!

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What I meant is that I usually use a generic value better than innovating or using a undocumented value.

I do not censure anyone who uses an invented value. You can use any tag you like. In case of doubt, I find a building=yes better because it is recognized as a valid but improvable value, while indicating a specific innovative value and not well documented can be misleading or confusing to other mappers.