Talk:Key:building:units
Confusion with building:flats=*
- See some discussion about this topic at Talk:Key:building:flats#Confusion_with_building:units.3D.2A.
- miki (talk) 13:13, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
Could we repurpose this as a "superset" of building:flats=*. So building:units=* specifies the "Number of residential and commercial units" and not just the residential ones we have a perfectly fit in the flat count. Flohoff (talk) 09:15, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
- I don't think that will be possible, because currently >99% of building:units uses are for the number of apartments (flats) in a building in Los Angeles, California. Also, it's often difficult to find how many actual "units" are in a large commercial building, such as an office building, because companies are often able to lease variable sized areas and re-model them for their own purposes. --Jeisenbe (talk) 05:18, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
Wild inaccuracies in Los Angeles County
The Los Angeles County building import add many building:units=* tags that seem quite suspect. For example, each of the 500 manufactured homes in this mobile home park can ostensibly accommodate 500 families – that's 500 per building – despite the relatively small size of most manufactured homes. You can spot more examples by looking up building:units=* tags for which the numeric value of the tag approximately matches the number of occurrences. This phenomenon seems to happen almost exclusively in mobile home parks, as opposed to single-family residential subdivisions.
Impiaaa pointed out that many of these manufactured homes share the same lacounty:ain=* tags, so the import likely misinterpreted a per-parcel field as applying to each individual building. An apartment or condominium building can consist of many parcels, in which case the tag would be accurate, but a mobile home park would be just one parcel, regardless of how many lots are subletted out. This makes the building:units=* key even less trustworthy than it was to begin with. The import's authors were aware of the mismatch between parcels and buildings for unit counting, but they were under the impression that this was a slight edge case involving apartment buildings, rather than a more severe case involving mobile home parks. [1]
– Minh Nguyễn 💬 07:58, 3 August 2022 (UTC)