[Imports] Stillwater, OK Imports

[Clifford Snow]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Max Erickson <maxerickson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> I guess the distinction is possible to infer from the geometries, but
> there isn't really a downside to using the tags either.
>
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. )

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.

To add further confusion, in iD, building=house is the default for a single
family standalone structure.

Because of this, I would recommend building=residential.

Clifford




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