[Tagging] Buildings mixing residential and commercial use

Danijel Schorlemmer osm at schorlemmer.net
Mon Aug 31 06:53:36 UTC 2015


What about

building=apartments
building:use=residential;commercial (or retail)

building=mixed doesn't seem to me to be a useful building tag. The building 
tag should describe the type of building, not its use.

Cheers



On Monday, August 31, 2015 10:26:27 AM Warin wrote:
> On 31/08/2015 8:58 AM, John Willis wrote:
> >> On Aug 31, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> uilding=commercial is quite suspect.
> > 
> > To me, there are 2 basic types of mixed use buildings.
> > 
> > mixed_use_urban
> > And
> > mixed_use_house
> > 
> > There are so many different combinations of retail, residential, hotel,
> > and commercial (and in come cases, attraction) That as long as there is
> > some kind of residential space (apartments/condos), then it would be
> > mixed_use_urban. This is especially true if the public facing  part (the
> > bottom floor or the side towards the street) are non-residential use (a
> > business/shop/not parking).
> snip
> 
> > So i suggest those two building types to denote these two basic types of
> > mixed use.
> I think it better to bite the bullet and start sub tagging correctly ...
> thus for a retail mixed with apartments
> 
> building=mixed (or =yes etc)
> building:retail=yes
> building:apartment=yes
> 
> ? More thoughts please...
> 
> 
> 
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