[Tagging] Multiple purposes for buildings

Jeff Meyer jeff at gwhat.org
Tue Jan 1 18:20:10 GMT 2013


How about just putting nodes inside the building that describe these
different purposes?

A node for the parking garage, one for the apartments/residences/condos,
however many for the businesses?

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Svavar Kjarrval <svavar at kjarrval.is>
> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > How does one tag buildings which are both commercial and residential?
>
> There isn't a good solution for this at the moment. It's a pain for
> high density areas like NYC where most buildings are multi-use.
>
> It might make sense to have a multiuse tag for these situations
>
> > 2) The ground floor is commercial but the residential part is in the
> > floors above. The housenumber is the same. Do I mark the building with
> > commercial;residential and leave it at that?
>
> And there are some buildings where part of the ground floor is
> residential, while other parts are commercial, such as the
> neighborhood where I live.
>
> The basement and ground floor of parts of the building are commercial,
> while other parts are residential, and then the high part is
> residential.
>
> > Or do I just mark buildings with multiple purposes with building=yes and
> > wait for a tagging scheme which can handle such situations?
>
> That's what I do.
>
> - Serge
>
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