I would call them terraced. Town House is just an estate agent marketing term, they are still terraced.
Phil (trigpoint) On 19 April 2025 08:57:20 BST, John Rowbotham via Talk-GB <[email protected]> wrote: > >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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