If you're drawing buildings, whether a house is terraced or not should be
apparent from the geometry without any special tagging.
It is obvious for humans, but not for software that will process data.
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On 21/07/2014 00:51, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
... but looking into WP showed that in Britain the meaning refers to
the town or city residence of a member of the nobility
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobility or gentry
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentry, as opposed to their country
Am 21/lug/2014 um 02:13 schrieb Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com:
If you're drawing buildings, whether a house is terraced or not should be
apparent from the geometry without any special tagging.
-1, of course you can see that there are houses attached to another, but you
can't tell
Wikipedia is rather precise on the different meanings - see my earlier post
with links.
Volker
On 21 July 2014 10:42, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:
On 21/07/2014 00:51, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
... but looking into WP showed that in Britain the meaning refers to
the
On 21/07/2014 10:29, Volker Schmidt wrote:
Wikipedia is rather precise on the different meanings - see my earlier
post with links.
Volker
Sure - I understand that you were correctly flagging the ambiguity
associated with the term, but what I was saying was that one of those
three
Yes, I know - I know that when you buy a townhouse in the UK it means
it's terraced.
My only point was that Wikipedia is a precise source of reference for this
discussion (at least the English version - it's a bit problematic with the
translations)
On 21 July 2014 11:47, SomeoneElse
2014-07-21 12:39 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com:
Yes, I know - I know that when you buy a townhouse in the UK it means
it's terraced.
+1, I'd use the established tag terraced_house and not just house
neither townhouse. Evventually we could have a subtag to subclass
terraced
On 20 Jul 2014 05:10, Hans De Kryger hans.dekryge...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone know the tag for townhouses?
If you mean town halls (known in Scottish English as town houses), that
would be amenity=townhall.
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What's your definition of townhouse? I suspect this word may be in use
around the world, meaning different things. What are the essential
characteristics? We have to try to be objective - it IS what is IS, but
what it is CALLED may vary.
On 2014-07-20 06:08, Hans De Kryger wrote:
Anyone
I don't know what Hans had in mind, but a short look at Wikipedia
illustrates that there is a problem with this term.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse_%28Great_Britain%29
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_of_local_government
And
Am 20/lug/2014 um 07:10 schrieb Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org:
I'd tag it as building=house and subdivide it as necessary similar to a
stripmall if you know where the walls between units/addresses are.
I'd probably use building=terraced_house for all recent developments I know who
I'm British, and I associate the term 'townhouse' (at least in estate
agents' blurb) with a house in a town having more than the usual two
storeys, and usually not detached. The OED supports this meaning, though
the earlier meaning was 'A house in a town or city; esp[ecially] one
belonging to
I'd tag it as building=house and subdivide it as necessary similar to a
stripmall if you know where the walls between units/addresses are.
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Hans De Kryger hans.dekryge...@gmail.com
wrote:
Anyone know the tag for townhouses?
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