Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-09 Thread Philip Barnes
On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 00:55 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday, December 8, 2013, Jonathan wrote: > It's the sort of building that houses the security guards or > gatekeeper. They operate the gates to allow entrance to or > exit from the site. May contain security guar

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Recent in the sense that only public broadcasting nerds had access to 30+ year old reruns until about 5 years ago in the US; it wasn't exactly mainstream by any stretch. On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Andrew Errington wrote: > On 9 December 2013 15:55, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Pinkertons call t

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Andrew Errington
On 9 December 2013 15:55, Paul Johnson wrote: > Pinkertons call this a Police Box, at least in the pacific northwestern US, > and even prior to the recent Doctor Who fad. Recent? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstre

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday, December 8, 2013, Jonathan wrote: > It's the sort of building that houses the security guards or gatekeeper. > They operate the gates to allow entrance to or exit from the site. May > contain security guards who patrol the fences/area. May contain security > equipment such as camera

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Dave Swarthout
I like building=gatehouse for those buildings that typically sit beside an access gate. There are numerous such buildings in Thailand where I do the bulk of my mapping. It seems every big corporate campus has them as do all gated_communities. To me, security_post implies soldiers rather than employ

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
> Am 08/dic/2013 um 19:36 schrieb Philip Barnes : > > The English term would be a police box (police_box). thank you. My suggestion is to use building for the structure. Maybe we can add more tags later regarding the capabilities (e.g. "capacity"(?) for the amount of people that have a plac

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread John F. Eldredge
Philip Barnes wrote: > On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 08:51 -0800, Tod Fitch wrote: > > It has been a while since I worked in a facility with such a > building. But I recall it being called a "guard shack" or "guard > house". Taginfo has only one guard_shack (and one guard_booth) but > does have 100 guardh

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 19:17 +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Btw, how would you call a small structure like this: > https://maps.google.it/maps?q=rom&ll=41.879601,12.496149&spn=0.00167,0.003473&safe=off&hnear=Rom,+Latium&gl=it&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=41.879677,12.496087&panoid=48p0hYYLAJMPzfxFbg_W

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Btw, how would you call a small structure like this: https://maps.google.it/maps?q=rom&ll=41.879601,12.496149&spn=0.00167,0.003473&safe=off&hnear=Rom,+Latium&gl=it&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=41.879677,12.496087&panoid=48p0hYYLAJMPzfxFbg_W5A&cbp=12,22.08,,2,4.41 These are used by the police to control t

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/12/8 Jonathan > Wikipedia suggests a gatehouse as a medieval construction: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatehouse > > building=gatehouse has been used 19 times, but in what context I don't > know. > there's also another usage of the term in the context of dams: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 08:51 -0800, Tod Fitch wrote: > It has been a while since I worked in a facility with such a building. But I > recall it being called a "guard shack" or "guard house". Taginfo has only one > guard_shack (and one guard_booth) but does have 100 guardhouse entries. The > few b

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Tod Fitch
It has been a while since I worked in a facility with such a building. But I recall it being called a "guard shack" or "guard house". Taginfo has only one guard_shack (and one guard_booth) but does have 100 guardhouse entries. The few building=guardhouse entries that I looked at via bing imagery

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread ael
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 04:14:33PM +, Jonathan wrote: > Wikipedia suggests a gatehouse as a medieval construction: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatehouse > > building=gatehouse has been used 19 times, but in what context I don't know. +1. Agree that it is might be ambiguous. ___

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Richard Welty
On 12/8/13 11:14 AM, Jonathan wrote: > Wikipedia suggests a gatehouse as a medieval construction: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatehouse > > building=gatehouse has been used 19 times, but in what context I don't > know. wikipedia is sometimes slightly off the mark. gatehouse (or gate house) is in

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Jonathan
Wikipedia suggests a gatehouse as a medieval construction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatehouse building=gatehouse has been used 19 times, but in what context I don't know. Jonathan http://bigfatfrog67.me On 08/12/2013 15:39, Philip Barnes wrote: On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 15:28 +, Jonathan

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Richard Welty
On 12/8/13 10:39 AM, Philip Barnes wrote: > Where I have worked, and industrial sites that I have visited over my > long career, that building is always called 'the gate house'. > > I would suggest building=gatehouse, or gate_house, although neither had > any previous useage :) > same in the US. th

Re: [Tagging] Security Gate Post/Cabin

2013-12-08 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 15:28 +, Jonathan wrote: > Hi all, > > Just went to tag a building at the main entrance/exit to an industrial > site and couldn't really find a well used or documented tag. > > It's the sort of building that houses the security guards or > gatekeeper. They operate the