<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 10:45 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On 23. Jul 2018, at 17:07, Paul Allen <<a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com">pla16021@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> How about building=residential to replace house/terrace/detached? <br>
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-1, there are several established tags for residential buildings in osm, e.g. apartments,</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them. We have many tags for residential buildings<br></div><div>and the result is that they're used inconsistently.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> and as the example shows, it isn’t possible to reliably identify terraced houses just by analyzing the geometry, so<br>
why would we want to remove the details? If someone is only interested in a detail level like “residential”, they won’t have to care about the differences in meaning and can normalize them all locally to residential.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's what we do with some other types of buildings. We separate form from function. We have industrial buildings<br></div><div>and then specify the industry.<br><br></div><div>We can have building=bungalow but that is redundant when it just means building:levels=1.<br><br></div><div>We can have building=detached, building=semi, building=house with most people using them incorrectly or<br></div><div>inconsistently or we can have building=residential and let the footprint indicate the type. Or, if you insist, add<br></div><div>residential=* where clarification is desirable.<br><br></div><div>We've just had a lot of people say "The wiki says this should be building=detached but I always use building=house."<br></div><div>That indicates the tags don't map well to how people actually think. It also means that you can't rely on the value<br></div><div>used indicating what it is meant to. We can carry on with the current muddle or we can try to do better. You vote muddle.<br><br>-- <br></div><div>Paul<br><br></div></div></div></div>