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

[Clifford Snow]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Martin Koppenhöfer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com>wrote:

> Not sure if I can agree, what does this tag "residential" express? Is this
> a building type? A building usage tag? How does it relate to landuse, how
> to building=building-type and established values?


Landuse is a different issue. For example, my condo is in a commercial
landuse area. Because the condo building includes two levels on commercial
space, having residential units within the commercial landuse is
acceptable. In fact, it is highly desired by city planners. It also means
that I live in an area that has high allowable noise limits since it is
zoned commercial.

The problem I originally was trying to solve was how do you tag apartments
in a multi-use building. If you had one or two retail shops in a apartment
building, say a cleaners and video rental shop, the building could be
tagged as building=apartment. However, when you get a building with whole
floors dedicated to commercial tenants then you need an alternative.

The solution Serge suggested works. The apartments, retail and other
commercial spaces can easily be tagged.

-- 
Clifford

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