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

[Ken Kilfedder]

I've tagged them with the individual front doors on the ground floor, and the entrances to the upper level with address ranges.

Example - https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/456975910 


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On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, at 6:56 PM, Donald Noble wrote:
> 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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