[Talk-us] building=house vs building=detached

[Russ Nelson]

There are hundreds of building=house in Potsdam, NY.
-russ

Elliott Plack writes:
 > Interesting. I think this might be one of those UK centric ones. According
 > to the wiki, you're correct. However here in the USA, I think many people,
 > especially new ones, would draw their house on OSM, and then tag it with
 > house on iD. Here a house is the place where a person or family resides.
 > Sometimes they're attached, other times they're detached.
 > 
 > 
 > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Saikrishna Arcot <saiarcot895 at gmail.com>wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi all,
 > >
 > > What the difference between building=house and building=detached? My
 > > understanding is that a house that has two addresses (and two familes)
 > > would be considered as building=house, whereas if there is only one address
 > > and one family, then it is building=detached.
 > >
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 > <div dir="ltr">Interesting. I think this might be one of those UK centric ones. According to the wiki, you're correct. However here in the USA, I think many people, especially new ones, would draw their house on OSM, and then tag it with house on iD. Here a house is the place where a person or family resides. Sometimes they're attached, other times they're detached. </div>
 > 
 > <div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Saikrishna Arcot <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saiarcot895 at gmail.com" target="_blank">saiarcot895 at gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
 > 
 > <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
 > <br>
 > What the difference between building=house and building=detached? My understanding is that a house that has two addresses (and two familes) would be considered as building=house, whereas if there is only one address and one family, then it is building=detached.<br>
 > 
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