Perhaps setting both building=yes and disused: building=apartments would 
fulfill all the needs.

Regards,
Mike

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>From: David Woolley <for...@david-woolley.me.uk>
>To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Disused or empty apartments prior to demolition
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>On 17/12/2019 20:35, Warin wrote:
>>
>> so
>> building=apartments
>> becomes
>> disused:building=apartments
>>
>> or
>> building=yes
>> becomes
>> disused:building=yes
>
>I disagree.  It is still a building.  In fact some of the most
>interesting buildings are disused ones.
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>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 08:20:27 +0000
>From: Robert Skedgell <r...@hubris.org.uk>
>To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Disused or empty apartments prior to demolition
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>On 17/12/2019 20:54, David Woolley wrote:
>> On 17/12/2019 20:35, Warin wrote:
>>>
>>> so
>>> building=apartments
>>> becomes
>>> disused:building=apartments
>>>
>>> or
>>> building=yes
>>> becomes
>>> disused:building=yes
>>
>> I disagree.  It is still a building.  In fact some of the most
>> interesting buildings are disused ones.
>
>Rather than change the tagging on the buildings, if they are currently
>enclosed by a landuse=residential polygon*, perhaps change that to
>something else (splitting the polygon if appropriate)?
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>Unfortunately that creates another headache, as neither
>landuse=construction nor landuse=brownfield really seem to fit the
>original case.
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>* In the OP's example, this is
>https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/676088956
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