[Talk-GB] The current state of mapping houses in GB

[Oliver Simmons]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 11:04, nathan case <nathancase at outlook.com> wrote:
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> You're right. But the problem with building=yes and building=residential is that they are too generic to be included in any meaningful house-related analyses. It's obviously impossible to know if it is house or other type of building if the only tag provided is building=yes.
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> As I mentioned in response to Ian, it is probably worth adding a note about those tags but they can't be included in the stats analyses.
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To me this seems kind of weird.
These are generic, and having them in analyses would be useful, it
would allow for us to compare their usage to the more accurate tags.
=yes I partially agree with you, but for house related statistics
=residential seems pretty relevant.

-Oliver Simmons