Disused:amenity transforms area in line

[ferdi2005]

If I use disused:amenity as tag and theatre as value, the areas becomes a line.

[sun-geo]

Which behavior would you expect instead?

[ferdi2005]

@sun-geo I’d expect to see it as an area, greyed out or with some indication of disused. I’d certainly not expect to see it as a line.

[quincylvania]

Hi and welcome, @ferdi2005. This happens because OSM doesn't have a separate area geometry type, so iD guesses what's an area based on the tags. Since iD didn't know whether disused:amenity should be an area, it falls back to line. You can add area=yes to anything like this to make it an area.

I added an unsearchable Disused Amenity preset to fix this.

[ferdi2005]

@quincylvania and can’t you add that iD recognizes disused:amenity as an area tag like amenity?

[quincylvania]

can’t you add that iD recognizes disused:amenity as an area tag like amenity?

Yes, this is what I did here:

I added an unsearchable Disused Amenity preset to fix this.

[ferdi2005]

@quincylvania Thanks!

[rhhsm]

I added an unsearchable Disused Amenity preset to fix this.

The issue also applies to buildings, both disused: and abandoned: . In addition, these buildings no longer appear on the OSM map. I'm tempted to use building=house & disused=yes instead of disused:house=yes even though this is discouraged, because the issue doesn't occur here. I think disused:house=yes should be displayed the same as building=house & disused=yes (brick red area with dotted perimeter).

[quincylvania]

@rhhsm Yes, there are many combinations of status:key that people use in OpenStreetMap, but I think it'd be over-the-top to try and support all of them as presets. I'd discourage using the disused:building tag specifically, since a building is still a building even when no one is using it.

[rhhsm]

Consensus on the OSM wiki is that the simple tag is discouraged in favour of the prefix for reasons given here for instance https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:abandoned: I think the software should be adapted to the consensus, not the other way around. Probably to create presets for all cases is not the most elegant solution (but I'm not a coder).

[matkoniecz]

1. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:abandoned is for abandoned, not disused

2. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:abandoned specifically indicates that building=* + abandoned=yes is superior to abandoned:building

3. I just edited https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:disused: to indicate that disused:building is a bad idea (feel free to discuss it on wiki/tagging mailing list/OSM Telegram/US Slack/...)

[HolgerJeromin]

Your link lost the :. Right is: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:disused:

[matkoniecz]

Your link lost the :

Thanks, fixed. Github tried to be helpful and delinked trailing :