[Tagging] How to tag apartments in a building that is multiuse

[Craig Wallace]

On 2013-06-23 20:54, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> While we're on the subject of building tagging:
>
> Prior to major building outline imports, OSM tended to contain mostly
> "important" or "notable" building outlines. People might do a business
> district, or the largest buildings in town, or the church, or zoo... but
> few did every house and garden shed.
>
> Now we have cities with all the buildings: notable and not.
>
> Is there a criteria or tag we could apply, allowing less cluttered maps
> to be made, yet still retain the concept of "notable" buildings that
> still show up on a reasonable human scale map?

On the 'Standard' Mapnik style, buildings tagged with building=house are 
rendered with a paler colour, so less prominent.
This should probably also include some other less notable building 
types, eg building=shed.

Craig