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 employees who regulate the flow of traffic in and out of either of those entities. Same with guard_house. But that's just me; I'm an American. We also referred to these places as guard shacks too.
FWIW, a police_box in Thailand is a small, neighborhood police station. Such "stations" are usually one building but in some cases involve several. And each police_box has a name related to the district in which it resides. I'm all for adding to the building=* tag rather than creating something altogether new for this situation. Regards, Dave On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > Am 08/dic/2013 um 19:36 schrieb Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk>: > > > > 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 place in it (rather than the number of those who fit in > it for a chat), or tags regarding the function ((traffic) surveillance > and/or control)). > > cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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