<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Max Erickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maxerickson@gmail.com" target="_blank">maxerickson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">It hasn't caught on well in the US, but building=detached is for what we normally call houses, freestanding single family residences. building=house is intended for terraced row houses.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I guess the distinction is possible to infer from the geometries, but there isn't really a downside to using the tags either.</p></blockquote></div>In the US, there is often an ordinance to allow detached living units, aka mother-in-law apartments. In Seattle they are officially called Accessory Dwelling Units, ADU. which leads me to tag them as building=detached. (And not to be confused with detached garages. )</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I suspect that in the US building=house is most likely a "detached" house according to British English. Not sure about the rest of the world, but it indicates that the tags building=house and building=detached are not a reliable indicator of the type of structure. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">To add further confusion, in iD, building=house is the default for a single family standalone structure. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Because of this, I would recommend building=residential. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Clifford</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>@osm_seattle<br></div><div><a href="http://osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us</a></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div></div></div>
</div></div>