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

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Martin Koppenhöfer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

>> A new tag called residential, where the value specifies the type of
>> residential, such as:
>>
>> residential=apartment
>> residential=condo
>> residential=co-op
>> residential=single_room_occupancy

> Not sure if I can agree, what does this tag "residential" express?

It expresses the presence of a residence, like shop=* expresses the
presence of a shop.

> Is this a building type?

No. It is an expression of a type of residence. It could optionally be
used in conjunction with a building, optionally, such as a building
tagged:

building=yes
residence=co-op

But it does not need to be. It can stand on its own.

residence=co-op
name=Morningside Apartments

> A building usage tag?

No, it's the same as shop=*

You can have many shops inside a single physical structure.

With many buildings, you have a retail component and a residential
component. This will try to accurately capture this information.

> How does it relate to landuse, how to
> building=building-type and established values?

The problem we're having is that our landuse is dense urban landuse,
which has multi-use buildings, with towers that include several
different types of features such as retail, office buildings, and
residential, all in one building.

There is no way to express this in OSM. So residentce=* allows us to
tag the residence with the same ease as one would tag the shop=*

- Serge