On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Max Erickson <[email protected]> wrote:
> It hasn't caught on well in the US, but building=detached is for what we > normally call houses, freestanding single family residences. building=house > is intended for terraced row houses. > > I guess the distinction is possible to infer from the geometries, but > there isn't really a downside to using the tags either. > In the US, there is often an ordinance to allow detached living units, aka mother-in-law apartments. In Seattle they are officially called Accessory Dwelling Units, ADU. which leads me to tag them as building=detached. (And not to be confused with detached garages. ) I suspect that in the US building=house is most likely a "detached" house according to British English. Not sure about the rest of the world, but it indicates that the tags building=house and building=detached are not a reliable indicator of the type of structure. To add further confusion, in iD, building=house is the default for a single family standalone structure. Because of this, I would recommend building=residential. Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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