Other arrangements are common as well, such as duplexes (buildings holding two households); the same property owner owns both halves of the building, and the land underneath both; he or she may live in one half and rent out the other half, or may rent out both halves.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] landuse=single family houses/apartments >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Tue Sep 07 22:07:45 America/Chicago 2010 At 2010-09-07 17:51, =?UTF-8?Q?M=E2=88=A1rtin_Koppenhoefer?= wrote: >2010/9/8 Alan Mintz <[email protected]>: > > At 2010-09-04 09:12, Erik Johansson wrote: > > > I've taken a slightly different approach. I use landuse=residential to > > outline the entire related area. I then add that way to a relation with > > role=boundary. I add the various buildings, roads leading to and within, > > swimming pools, tennis courts, etc. to the relation. On the relation > itself, > > I tag: > > > > type=site > > + site=housing > > + housing={house|apartment|condominium|mobile_home|public_housing} > > >that's fine, but adding simply the tag >housing={house|apartment|condominium|mobile_home|public_housing} >to the landuse=residential polygon would have a similar effect. True - I wanted to be complete about it, though, so I described how I was doing it, since at the time I started (a year or two ago), there was no coverage of the subject in the wiki at all. > > : house is a single-family detached dwelling where the owner owns the land > > and the buildings on it > > : apartment is a multi-family dwelling where the tenants pay rent to the > > owner of the buildings and land > > : condominium is where the tenant "owns" the building (or part of one, as > > they are often attached like apartments), but not the land, and pays > > proportional rent and maintenance fees for the land and common areas. > > : mobile_home is similar to condominium, but using pre-fabricated housing > > instead of permanent structures > > : public_housing is generally apartments (though occasionally houses) that > > are owned by a government agency and occupied by low-income/disabled > > tenants. > >Your system is a mixture of typology and ownership. Intentionally. Sometimes, I don't believe it's necessary to completely dissect all of the possible features from every different angle - particularly when many of those features may not be discernable from a quick survey in person or by records. AFAIK, in the US, these are the types of housing available when one goes to look for a place to live - this is the way that they are commonly categorized by people both in the real estate business and not. >The owner situation might be quite dependent on cultur (even locally, >i.e. differing from one city to another). In Berlin for instance there >are traditionally many people in rented apartments, but you will also >quite often find mixed situations: owners and leasers door to door in >the same building. This can happen in condominiums here, too. You can sometimes get approval to rent out your condo. I don't think it's likely to be something you can see from a survey, though. It's still going to look like a condo, and be one in most respects. I wasn't attempting to be completely rigorous in the descriptions - just to try to describe what the thing is for those that do not know. >There are also people that rent a detached house. Sure. It's still a house, though. It's still owned by the person that owns the land, and that is not the government. Perhaps my descriptions should be broadened to exclude who lives there. >... >Actually this is a really wide field, there are endless singular >projects and exceptions, and there are huge cultural differences:... Again, I think this is one of those times when we need to focus more on usability and common knowledge. I believe I have described the terminology that people commonly know and use. It's worked well for me in the 315 cases that I've mapped. I don't think it precludes creation of an extended tagging scheme if someone really wants to import or research the other information. -- Alan Mintz <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
