On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net> wrote: > At 2010-09-04 09:12, Erik Johansson wrote: >> >> I would like to tag areas with apartment buildings, and small houses >> for a single family differently, at the moment I tag all of them with >> landuse=residential. I need good terminology in english to tag them. > > type=site > + site=housing > + housing={house|apartment|condominium|mobile_home|public_housing}
> Here's an example of apartment: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/194049 at > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.079189&lon=-117.560582&zoom=18&layers=M&relation=194049 Thanks housing is a better term, here are some questions: Is it possible to separate your category into physical and legal status? All I want to do is separate houses/"villas" from apartment buildings. I don't know how to spot the differences of different type of housing tenures, it's only a legal difference between condominium, housing cooperative and public housing. But wikipedia is very vague on this subject so I think it's pretty hard to be able to get good terminology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_building_types#Residential_Buildings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_tenure /emj _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging