[Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments

[Erik Johansson]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Alan Mintz
<Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 2010-09-04 09:12, Erik Johansson wrote:
>>
>> I would like to tag areas with apartment buildings, and small houses
>> for a  single family differently, at the moment I tag all of them with
>>  landuse=residential. I need good terminology in english to tag them.
>
> type=site
> + site=housing
> + housing={house|apartment|condominium|mobile_home|public_housing}

> Here's an example of apartment:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/194049 at
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.079189&lon=-117.560582&zoom=18&layers=M&relation=194049

Thanks housing is a better term, here are some questions:

Is it possible to separate your category into physical and legal
status? All I want to do is separate houses/"villas" from apartment
buildings. I don't know how to spot the differences of different type
of housing tenures, it's only a legal difference between condominium,
housing cooperative and public housing.

But wikipedia is very vague on this subject so I think it's pretty
hard to be able to get good terminology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_building_types#Residential_Buildings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_tenure

/emj