[Tagging] Tag for number of flats

[Florian Lohoff]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 07:30:53PM +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> > 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.

Repurposing building:units to count flats and commercial entities as a
total is not wrong then per se.

As this would mean units to be a superset of flats.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                     f at zz.de
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