[talk-au] use of addr:unit

Andrew Harvey andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com
Thu May 16 13:49:23 UTC 2019


To me they are all the same. I think addr:flats given it's documented on
the wiki and is in use is the best tag to use. Open to other opinions.

On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 23:37, Sebastian Spiess <mapping at consebt.de> wrote:

> Thanks I did not see this one before.
> Is there a real difference between units and flats? Flats appears very
> British to me while I did consider units as covering Units, separated Units
> one a block of land, apartments within an apartment building and
> flats/units within one building/house.
>
> On 16/5/19 11:08 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:flats is documented and in
> use for this.
>
> On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 22:18, Sebastian Spiess <mapping at consebt.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> how would you tag multiple units in one building or apartment block?
>>
>> e.g. if we have an apartment block with units 1, 2, 3, 4...
>>
>> addr:unit=1;2;3;4
>>
>> or
>>
>> addr:unit=1-4
>>
>> or
>>
>> addr:unit=Unit 1-4
>>
>>
>> what to do if the numbering is not consecutive, e.g. only units 1, 3, 6,
>> 7, 8
>>
>>
>> The wiki seems to be quite light on detail about this so what are your
>> thoughts?
>>
>>
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