On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 15:28 +0000, 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 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 monitoring displays. Usually > first point of call of any visitor or site operative. May handout > health and safety equipment, such as hard hats etc. May collect names > and details of all visitors. > > It's the building I want to describe but could be applied to a node as well. > > building=security_post has been used 3 times and seems to pretty well > cover it but I'm surprised at its small use. > > This would not sit on a way, as that would the be a barrier, but is > usually positioned near the barrier=gate etc, however, could be > elsewhere on the site, particularly in the example of a Foreman's Office > or Site Office in the construction industry. > > Any thoughts, is it worth a wiki page or subpage of building?
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 :) Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
