Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Colin Smale
On 23 July 2018 04:09:03 EEST, Jmapb wrote: >On 7/22/2018 7:57 PM, Paul Allen wrote: >> You've (perhaps inadvertently) > >> Oh, and then there are bungalows and cottages, which count as houses >> in OSM, so are tagged as >> building=detached. > >Nb, the wiki does offer building=bungalow, and

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Jmapb
On 7/22/2018 7:57 PM, Paul Allen wrote: You've (perhaps inadvertently) highlighted the problem.  A detached building looks like a house, so is tagged as building=detached.  A property in a terrace (row house in Merkin) doesn't look like a house, so is tagged as building=house. That's about

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Mike H
It seems that detached is supposed to be a more detailed value than house. I went through as many house type values for building as I could find of taginfo, and put them into a table quite a few of them look to be duplicates/typos. I've attached that table to this email. I used the parent column

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Jmapb
On 7/22/2018 6:16 PM, Warin wrote: For a row of houses .. ie terrace houses there is https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dterrace I disagree with the suggesting if they are individually mapped they should be tagged building=house, they are still a terrace so building=terrace

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Paul Allen
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:40 AM, marc marc wrote: building value is what the building look like. > +1 > a detached building is a building that look like a house > -9 :) You've (perhaps inadvertently) highlighted the problem. A detached building looks like a house, so is tagged as

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread marc marc
Le 23. 07. 18 à 01:27, André Pirard a écrit : > If we start using building=detached we no longer know if it's > a house or a plain building, do we? > So, detached is not a type of building but an attribute of it. > Else, we would use building=detached for a church. building value is what the

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread André Pirard
On 2018-07-22 20:56, Mike H wrote: The definitions of building=house and building=detached on the wiki are very similar and don't seem to have any meaningful difference. I've seen people say that house is meant for rowhouses, and detached should be for stand-alone houses, but there is no

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Warin
On 23/07/18 07:22, Andrew Hain wrote: I will admit to having stuck to building=house in Britain and letting the geometry of the way identify the configuration. +1 For a row of houses .. ie terrace houses there is https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dterrace I disagree with the

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Steve Doerr
On 22/07/2018 21:27, Tom Pfeifer wrote: Probably the reason can be explained etymologically. In the UK, terraced houses (AmE row houses) are very common, so those lucky enough to hear less noise from their neighbours emphasize that by owning a 'detached' (not attached to a terrace) or

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Andrew Hain
I will admit to having stuck to building=house in Britain and letting the geometry of the way identify the configuration. -- Andrew From: Tom Pfeifer Sent: 22 July 2018 21:27:30 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools Subject: Re: [Tagging] building =

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Probably the reason can be explained etymologically. In the UK, terraced houses (AmE row houses) are very common, so those lucky enough to hear less noise from their neighbours emphasize that by owning a 'detached' (not attached to a terrace) or 'semi-detached' (two houses sharing a wall)

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 9:51 PM Jmapb wrote: > > I know that in the USA, it's very common to see detached houses tagged > as building=house, and there have been lots of mappers and imports of > house footprints using this tag. Possibly related to the fact that the > term "detached" is not used

Re: [Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Jmapb
On 7/22/2018 2:56 PM, Mike H wrote: The definitions of building=house and building=detached on the wiki are very similar and don't seem to have any meaningful difference. I've seen people say that house is meant for rowhouses, and detached should be for stand-alone houses, but there is no

[Tagging] building = house vs detached.

2018-07-22 Thread Mike H
The definitions of building=house and building=detached on the wiki are very similar and don't seem to have any meaningful difference. I've seen people say that house is meant for rowhouses, and detached should be for stand-alone houses, but there is no documentation that explains that. If that