Jul 8, 2020, 13:45 by pla16...@gmail.com: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 10:29, Martin Koppenhoefer <> dieterdre...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> >> as nobody has replied to this, I’m asking again: is a house really only a >> single dwelling building, or can there be a few more? >> > > There are plenty of large houses, built for a single family (with servants) > that > have been split into several dwellings. There may be several external > entrances or one entrance. Is it still a house even though there are > multiple families? > > From the wiki: "A single dwelling usually inhabited by a single family..." > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Household> > So multiple occupation is fine. From the outside you might never know, > unless there are separate addresses marked in some way (such as a > door buzzer with multiple buttons). > Even there you may be still wrong - in rural Poland such house will often have a single family living there, with separate buzzers for younger generation and separate buzzer for their parents (with older generation typically living on ground level and younger on the upper floor). > If dwellings are vertical slices then there's building:part or > mapping as individual buildings (so you can get 1A, 1B, etc. > to show). In many cases I'd map it as a single building=house > and specify house number as 1A, 1B, 1C because I don't know > the internal layout. > I would be strongly against slicing building into multiple ones based on ownership or dwellings or occupancy. I would tag building based on its structure (that typically is clear except some cases on boundary like apparently some row houses). >> Are these apartment buildings? >> https://valeriemichelledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/img_4289.jpg >> > > No way of knowing from that picture. Quite possibly built as large houses > for wealthy families, but would require historical knowledge to be sure. > In my city I was unsure and ended tagging them building=residential > May now be split into apartments, but would need closer inspection to look > for house numbers/buzzers/whatever. > This is not really relevant for tagging building tag. > Reality is messy, our tags are messy > +1
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