Thank you all for your thoughts and wisdom on terraces.
I shall go back to using 'terraced'. It's a learning curve.
The examples you offer though are good ones: the first example isn't
massively dissimilar from parts of the new Pennington Wharf site and the
second example is the local 19th century norm (do I have to defrag my
hard drive and delete my internet history after using that Streetviewer,
though, haha?)
I suppose I was just perturbed that talking to the designers, exploring
the site as it was being built, understanding that the properties had
storeys, parking access etc showing the 140 years' difference from
traditional 2 up 2 down back-to-back terraces, might be something we
could map at a top level to describe the setting more appropriately.
'We're not doing terraces!' the architect told me indignantly in 2012.
We have codes for the number of poles on a sign so finding an ID editor
code to differentiate connected housing seemed sensible: let's delete it
so others don't mistakenly apply it. And also, I suppose that, as with
the tens of thousands of edits I've done, I am there to set eyes on the
buildings and talk to people on site...not, I'm afraid, on another
continent.
John.
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Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Terraced v town houses
On 19/04/2025 09:53, Philip Barnes wrote: > I would call them terraced.
So would I. > Town House is just an estate agent marketing term, they
are still terraced. It's not entirely a marketing term. In British
English, it's generally used to mean larger (often three or four storey)
terraced houses in a Georgian (or neo-Georgian) style, as opposed to the
"two up, two down" Victorian artisan style. These, for example
are townhouses: https://maps.app.goo.gl/qYtSREDcxTnukqaX7 but these are
not: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MRxJaNKkKVNCkbEp7 Both, however, are
terraced - that is, they are physically contiguous with no gap between
adjacent dwellings - as opposed to detached or semi-detached. From a
mapping perspective, therefore, they should be tagged as terraced,
because that's their physical construction. Which is also what the wiki
says, there's no documented house=town_house (or house=townhouse)
sub-tag. Mark _______________________________________________ Talk-GB
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