I have a picture of a quonset hut that is still standing out on Adak
Island. It was put there during WWII AFAIK. I will try to put it on
Wikimedia tomorrow if anybody is interested.

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Rene <ar...@gmx.co.uk> wrote:

> First of all, thanks for this discussion guys!
>
> In addition to Martin I think Wolfgang has the best way to tag a building
> and what's inside of it. So let's assume you want to tag a very cheap
> restaurant inside an old Quonset hut the tags will be: amenity=restaurant,
> building=quonset_hut and food=bad_don't_spend_your_money_here :-)
>
> One problem though, the key:building wiki needs an extra quonset_hut
> description and picture for future reference.
>
> Rene
>
>
> Op 13-4-2017 om 18:12 schreef Wolfgang Zenker:
>
> * Michał Brzozowski <www.ha...@gmail.com> [170413 16:41]:
>>
>>> I don't see how going from "typology" you conclude it's strictly about
>>> form. Typology is about types, not saying with respect to what.
>>> When you look at top building values in Taginfo, it's clear to me
>>> these state purpose (house, residential, garage, apartments,
>>> industrial, school and so on), with only exception being hut, other
>>> non-purpose values from the first page are in fact non-buildings
>>> (roof).
>>>
>> I'm in between here: building typology would depend on the original
>> purpose of the building, but that would not necessary still be the
>> current purpose of the building. So, if a building had originally
>> been constructed as a church and is built in the style of a church,
>> but is now used as a restaurant, it would be tagged amenity=restaurant,
>> building=church.
>>
>> Wolfgang
>> (lyx@osm)
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