Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

Hi Bart, Glad it's of use but I can't take the credit. I learnt of this tool via JonS (not sure if he is on here) who, from what I can see, has pretty much addressed all the housing in Wakefield with it! Regards, *Paul* On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 19:37, BD

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

Paul, The Terracer plugin is absolutely great. Reason for me to pose question on how to best map houses was solely because I drew some outlines and couldnt find a good way to split the objects.JOSM and terracer are doing the job much easier (see the village Im trying to map:

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

On 27-Nov-18 11:50, Lester Caine wrote: On 27/11/2018 11:40, John Aldridge wrote: It would be useful if there was a means of splitting buildings in the editor(s). I'm probably in a minority here, but since the mapper usually can't tell how the building is divided internally, it's more honest

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

On 27/11/2018 11:40, John Aldridge wrote: It would be useful if there was a means of splitting buildings in the editor(s). I'm probably in a minority here, but since the mapper usually can't tell how the building is divided internally, it's more honest to leave the building undivided and put

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

It would be useful if there was a means of splitting buildings in the editor(s). I'm probably in a minority here, but since the mapper usually can't tell how the building is divided internally, it's more honest to leave the building undivided and put the housenumber etc. tags on nodes on the

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

> It would be useful if there was a means of splitting buildings in the editor(s). I believe the Terracer plugin for JOSM could be your friend and guide here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Terracer I've not used it myself however. Regards, *Paul* On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

On 27/11/2018 08:47, Ed Loach wrote: 'We expect this "interpolation way" to be a temporary construct. In the long run, OSM will have every single house mapped as a building outline, and every single house will be tagged with its house number, so that interpolation ways will gradually vanish.

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

Dan wrote: > The more orthodox use is described here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses#Using_interpolation Interesting. I'm clearly behind with wiki reading. My views on addr:interpolation are still based on

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

Hi BD, Ed's right that opinions will vary and there's often not one perfect answer. Allow me to propose a modification of Martin's suggestion, for the case where you have one single outline for a whole terrace and no knowledge of exactly which housenumber sits where: building=terrace

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

BD asked: > can some one tell me, what is the best way to map houses in residential area. > > Which one should we consider the most appropriate way to map longer building > comprised of few properties? I'm not sure either of your two examples are the best way, and I suspect the answer is

[Talk-GB] How to map houses

Hi, can some one tell me, what is the best way to map houses in residential area. I was thinking of this on a much smaller scale (four or five terraced homes) but here is a good example of even longer properties. www.openstreetmap.org www.openstreetmap.org West of the Westbury Ave., each