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

[nathan case]

As you say, building=residential is a generic tag. It could have been applied to a house but equally to an apartment block or a terrace of houses. I agree it's probably mostly applied to houses but what fraction? I think that is impossible to know, at least without doing much more in-depth research. 

building=residential is used 1,405,235 times in GB  (https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/tags/building=residential) versus 2.4 million for building=house.

I'll be sure to add it to the list.

Cheers.

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Simmons <oliversimmo at gmail.com> 
Sent: 14 April 2021 19:19
To: nathan case <nathancase at outlook.com>
Cc: Talk-GB <Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] The current state of mapping houses in GB

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.
>

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