[Talk-GB] building=maisonette was:Retagging building=flats

Donald Noble drnoble at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 17:56:11 UTC 2021


Good evening all,

The previous post below got me wondering about how best to tag houses which
are effectively 2 flats one above the other, but each with their
separate front door.

If I understand correctly, this could be tagged as a maisonette, but not
sure if this was what Jerry was referring to, and whether it is a useful
detail to add?

There are quite a lot of these in Edinburgh, and I have just been mapping
them with building=house with 2 nodes for the addresses at the front doors.
For some, I have added level=1 where it is obvious from an outside stair.

Any thoughts on what is best practice, as I couldn't find any documentation
of this on the wiki.

Cheers, Donald

On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 14:08, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, apartments is well-established as the most widespread tag. The one
> type of property where re-tagging to apartments should be avoided is
> building=maisonette. These are quite distinct, and, possibly, peculiarly
> British, and should retain the tag (even if it doesn't help with
> StreetComplete).
>
> In the London area it may be of interest to subtag mansion blocks of flats
> (e.g., the massive group around Queen's Tennis Club in West Kensington) as
> these are another distinct building form.
>
> Jerry
>
> On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 10:13, Mat Attlee <mattattlee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've noticed that around Hackney in London there are quite a few
>> buildings tagged as "flats" eg
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/197881319
>>
>> These don't show up in StreetComplete and having raised it with them they
>> suggested mass retagging them to building=apartments
>> https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/272
>>
>> What are people's thoughts on this?
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