Hello all, I appear to be in dispute with a relatively new mapper about one of the most popular forms of housing in my area.
I've had several of my tags changed from terraced house to town house. The mapper says town houses aren't valid.
These are hundreds of domestic brick built properties constructed in the last 7 years, all fitted with solar panels, some with vehicle access through void parts of the ground floor area to gated parking at their rears, some with 'attic dressing rooms' on their third floors. Talking to the original designers and planners of the estate, the idea (reflected in marketing and promotion which spoke of 'modern town houses'), the intention was to modernise the feel of traditional back-to-back Victorian terraces common in the borough and mostly built in response to the 1880 Act. Indeed, something that really interested the Royal team who visited during the build was the difference between the old style and these 21st century versions.
So - is using 'town house' banned, as my correspondent says, or a useful way to differentiate between 120 years' of connected domestic housing design? I'm happy to be overruled if we can't use the tags this way. But I did do the legwork on site to call the properties what they are known as based on conversations with their builders.
Changeset #165128178 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/165128178> is typical. I did offer to meet the mapper at the nearby (excellent) pub for a chat and share ideas but it seems now that he does most of his mapping near Niagara Falls.
Thanks for any tips or ideas, John.
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