<div dir="ltr">That sounds okay, but would be good to try and define this through a proposal.<div><br></div><div>According to <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:units">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:units</a> <span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">>99.8% of the current usage came from an import where it marked residential units, ie. the building:flats tag. So in my opinion it would be good to try and get building:flats= approved and then try to move the imported data of building:units across to building:flats opening up building:units for a different definition.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#202122" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Since we generally use British English for tags, then as Paul mentions, building:flats is correct for residential living spaces within a building, tagging presets can of course then translate this into "units" where that is the more common term for residential flats/units/apartments.</span></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 20:23, Florian Lohoff <<a href="mailto:f@zz.de">f@zz.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 07:30:53PM +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote:<br>
> > Unit is a lot more generic and this may cause people to abuse it<br>
> > for commercial units or dont tag it at all.<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:units" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:units</a><br>
> <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:flats" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:flats</a><br>
> <br>
> Both document the keys as "number of *residential* units in a building".<br>
> <br>
> I can see an argument for documenting and using building:flats as<br>
> residential units and building:units as total units including commercial,<br>
> but this is not how it's currently documented.<br>
<br>
Repurposing building:units to count flats and commercial entities as a<br>
total is not wrong then per se.<br>
<br>
As this would mean units to be a superset of flats.<br>
<br>
Flo<br>
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