I use addr:flats regularly. I've recently been mapping high density
areas around the city centre where a high proportion of the residential
addresses are flats, often in converted factories. Here it seems
worthwhile to add flat numbers when they are displayed outside the building.
Here's an example of a street where 12 buildings/entrances have been
tagged with addresses, but that expands to 191 addresses if the flats
are listed separately:
http://osm-nottingham.org.uk/?z=18&lon=-1.14193&lat=52.95324&bgl=OSM,1,17&s=%22Woolpack%20Lane%22&st=AddressSearchJson
I use addr:unit as well. I use that for retail/commercial/industrial
units rather than residential. If I tag addr:flats=1-10 then I'd assume
that refers to 10 separate addresses, whereas I would assume
addr:unit=1-3 is a single address. That's undocumented and others may
disagree.
Cheers,
Will
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