Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> 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 guardhouse entries. The few building=guardhouse entries > that I looked at via bing imagery do seem to be the type of facility > being discussed. > > > > And the "modern usage" section on Wikipedia seems to fit: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardhouse > > Guard house tends to be more on a military installation rather than a > civilian factory. Shack is a very American word... > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
When I worked as a factory security guard in Nashville, TN, USA, in the 1980s, the guards tended to use the term "guard shack" in conversation, but we had to call it a "guard house" in our written reports, because our supervisor felt that "guard shack" sounded too informal. -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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