[Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

[John F. Eldredge]

Other arrangements are common as well, such as duplexes (buildings holding two households); the same property owner owns both halves of the building, and the land underneath both; he or she may live in one half and rent out the other half, or may rent out both halves.

-------Original Email-------
Subject :Re: [Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments
From  :mailto:Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.Net
Date  :Tue Sep 07 22:07:45 America/Chicago 2010


At 2010-09-07 17:51, =?UTF-8?Q?M=E2=88=A1rtin_Koppenhoefer?= wrote:
>2010/9/8 Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net>:
> > At 2010-09-04 09:12, Erik Johansson wrote:
>
> > I've taken a slightly different approach. I use landuse=residential to
> > outline the entire related area. I then add that way to a relation with
> > role=boundary. I add the various buildings, roads leading to and within,
> > swimming pools, tennis courts, etc. to the relation. On the relation
> itself,
> > I tag:
> >
> > type=site
> > + site=housing
> > + housing={house|apartment|condominium|mobile_home|public_housing}
>
>
>that's fine, but adding simply the tag
>housing={house|apartment|condominium|mobile_home|public_housing}
>to the landuse=residential polygon would have a similar effect.

True - I wanted to be complete about it, though, so I described how I was
doing it, since at the time I started (a year or two ago), there was no
coverage of the subject in the wiki at all.


> > : house is a single-family detached dwelling where the owner owns the land
> > and the buildings on it
> > : apartment is a multi-family dwelling where the tenants pay rent to the
> > owner of the buildings and land
> > : condominium is where the tenant "owns" the building (or part of one, as
> > they are often attached like apartments), but not the land, and pays
> > proportional rent and maintenance fees for the land and common areas.
> > : mobile_home is similar to condominium, but using pre-fabricated housing
> > instead of permanent structures
> > : public_housing is generally apartments (though occasionally houses) that
> > are owned by a government agency and occupied by low-income/disabled
> > tenants.
>
>Your system is a mixture of typology and ownership.

Intentionally. Sometimes, I don't believe it's necessary to completely
dissect all of the possible features from every different angle -
particularly when many of those features may not be discernable from a
quick survey in person or by records. AFAIK, in the US, these are the types
of housing available when one goes to look for a place to live - this is
the way that they are commonly categorized by people both in the real
estate business and not.


>The owner situation might be quite dependent on cultur (even locally,
>i.e. differing from one city to another). In Berlin for instance there
>are traditionally many people in rented apartments, but you will also
>quite often find mixed situations: owners and leasers door to door in
>the same building.

This can happen in condominiums here, too. You can sometimes get approval
to rent out your condo. I don't think it's likely to be something you can
see from a survey, though. It's still going to look like a condo, and be
one in most respects. I wasn't attempting to be completely rigorous in the
descriptions - just to try to describe what the thing is for those that do
not know.


>There are also people that rent a detached house.

Sure. It's still a house, though. It's still owned by the person that owns
the land, and that is not the government. Perhaps my descriptions should be
broadened to exclude who lives there.


>...
>Actually this is a really wide field, there are endless singular
>projects and exceptions, and there are huge cultural differences:...

Again, I think this is one of those times when we need to focus more on
usability and common knowledge. I believe I have described the terminology
that people commonly know and use. It's worked well for me in the 315 cases
that I've mapped. I don't think it precludes creation of an extended
tagging scheme if someone really wants to import or research the other
information.

--
Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>


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