[Imports] Stillwater, OK Imports

[Max Erickson]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Max Erickson <maxerickson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

I encourage sticking with detached.

We should be working to improve building tagging rather than making it
a bigger mess.

I always use building=garage for an independent garage and I think
building=detached makes sense for both houses on the sort of
properties you mention. The permitting information could go in another
tag, leaving the building= tag for describing the type of structure.

Anyway I've said my bit, I'll stop pulling the discussion away from the import.


Max