[Tagging] Tag for number of flats

[Andrew Harvey]

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 18:26, Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> wrote:

>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 10:45:12AM +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> > Yes building:units and building:flats are the same thing.
> > Flat/unit/apartment are all terms for the same thing, given
> building:units
> > mostly came from an import we should deprecate it and replace with
> > building:flats.
>
> From my perspective its not the same. Or from the perspective i had
> planning FTTH. There may be 4 Flat in Level 1 and 2 and 2 Shops
> on the ground floor. Thats 4 Flats or 6 Units.
>
> Unit is a lot more generic and this may cause people to abuse it
> for commercial units or dont tag it at all.
>

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:units
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:flats

Both document the keys as "number of *residential* units in a building".

I can see an argument for documenting and using building:flats as
residential units and building:units as total units including commercial,
but this is not how it's currently documented.
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