At 2010-09-08 01:37, Erik Johansson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Alan Mintz
<alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 2010-09-04 09:12, Erik Johansson wrote:
>>
>> I would like to tag areas with apartment buildings, and small houses
>> for a single family differently, at the moment I tag all of them with
>> landuse=residential. I need good terminology in english to tag them.
>
> type=site
> + site=housing
> + housing={house|apartment|condominium|mobile_home|public_housing}
> Here's an example of apartment:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/194049 at
>
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.079189&lon=-117.560582&zoom=18&layers=M&relation=194049
Thanks housing is a better term, here are some questions:
Is it possible to separate your category into physical and legal
status? All I want to do is separate houses/"villas" from apartment
buildings. I don't know how to spot the differences of different type
of housing tenures, it's only a legal difference between condominium,
housing cooperative and public housing.
You're right, it can be hard to tell from just satellite imagery, but there
are clues.
If you see a tract with houses of various shapes and colors, individual
driveways leading to streets, some swimming pools and some not, I'd call
them "house".
Mobile home parks have their own look to them. Once you've seen one, you
know what you're looking at. E.g.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.12371&lon=-117.58092&zoom=17&layers=M
(it would be nice to have the main slippy map have a selectable satellite
imagery background layer, wouldn't it?)
If you see larger, multi-story buildings, similar to each other, with a
common swimming pool beside a different-looking building, you're either
looking at condos or apartments. In the absence of any other info, I call
them "apartment". On surveying, if you can see signage at the entrance for
the name of the complex, you can Google for the name and the street, and
usually find units for sale in the real-estate listing services - then it
is condo. If you don't see the complex name, but see a no trespass sign,
and it has at the bottom "Silver Springs HOA" (home owners association),
then it is condo.
Further clues can be gotten from county assessor's data if online. Public
housing usually looks like apartment/condo, except it will show as
city/county/federal land in the assessor's maps. Also, the distinction
between condo and apartment is sometimes that condos will have individual
addresses and apartments will not, though this is not the case in every
city (Irvine, CA being an exception that comes to mind where apartments
have their own housenumbers too).
It's possible that I've mapped some duplexes as houses, but I can see
adding "duplex" as a type.
I can see adding "townhouse", too.
The rest seem to be local terminology differences or slight variations on
the same idea of the types already mentioned.
--
Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net>
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