[Talk-GB] House converted to maisonette

[Tom Crocker]

Thanks, good to know. I wasn't sure if I could use the building:use tag in
that way as the examples on the wiki are more like residential, commercial,
etc.

On Wed, 21 Jul 2021, 10:10 SK53, <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would call that a house converted to apartments at least in OSM speak,
> and keep maisonette for the, quite distinct, purpose-built structures.
>
> Either way: building=house|terrace|terraced_house
> building:use=apartments|maisonette
>
> As maisonettes are a special case of apartments, I think the primary
> interest in tagging is in the original building form.
>
> Jerry
>
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2021, 08:55 Tom Crocker, <tomcrockermail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There's an end-terrace that's been converted into a maisonette. Should
>> this still be building=house following original form? Any way of explicitly
>> describing it as now being a maisonette?
>>
>> At the moment the rest of the terrace has the addresses on the building
>> rather than an entrance. I was thinking of just adding a new entrance=home
>> with house number 24A and leaving the building with house number 24 as I
>> haven't mapped the other entrances, but realise this might be confusing.
>>
>> Is there good/better practice in this situation?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tom
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