Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

sent from a phone > On 12. Sep 2018, at 06:37, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OSM says something about the architectural style being the significant thing > for a building. no, the type, not the style. With architectural style you usually associate the period or period that is

Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

> In your case you may have a way with 4 nodes. And you want to divide it > up into seperate things. OK? > > I put 2 new nodes on the way. > Then I break the way at these new nodes. > Then I close the resultant 2 ways (one old but modified and one new) by > extending both ways to close them. > >

Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

On 12/09/18 12:26, André Pirard wrote: I disagree with suggesting a whole menagerie of tags for houses, so that someone making a search for them has to consult a whole inexisting catalog of keywords to use. I suggest a single building=house plus a series of attributes like

Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

On 2018-09-10 02:27, André Pirard wrote: Hi, According to my OSM readings, I thought that a terrace was something very special, but, according to dictionary.com , a terrace is most exactly like French, mainly a) raised ground, b) flat top of a

Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

Am 10.09.2018 um 02:27 schrieb André Pirard: What should I do? building=terrace describes mapping separate houses as an *alternative*. Erase what another mapper did, and replace that element with houses? That's what I do. You may

Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

sent from a phone > On 10. Sep 2018, at 09:46, Colin Smale wrote: > > For an individual dwelling, we have building=house. For the entire row as a > single building, building=terrace_of_houses might be better, or otherwise > building=housing_terrace. But not building=terraced_house as that

Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

On 10/09/2018 08:21, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I agree that building=terrace is not a nice tag, I would prefer building=terraced_house To my mind, a terrace consists of a number of terraced houses. Each house in the terrace is one terraced house, but the whole block of houses (mapped as a

Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

For an individual dwelling, we have building=house. For the entire row as a single building, building=terrace_of_houses might be better, or otherwise building=housing_terrace. But not building=terraced_house as that implies a single dwelling. On 2018-09-10 09:21, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >

Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

sent from a phone > On 10. Sep 2018, at 02:27, André Pirard wrote: > > In my mind, building=terrace is a bad tag. It should be: > building=house > house:terraced=yes > be it as a row of houses or a single one. I agree that building=terrace is not a nice tag, I would prefer

Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 3:19 AM Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/09/18 10:27, André Pirard wrote: > > > On the other hand, I once asked how to map a part of the street that is > fitted with tables and seats near a café or restaurant. > That is a real terrace. > > > But it is not a

Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

André, "terraced housing" is a British English language term for what we would call row houses in America. If there is already a building outline for the whole row, and you would like to make it more precise by outlining each individual house, great! (As the wiki says, this is the preferred

Re: [Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

On 10/09/18 10:27, André Pirard wrote: Hi, According to my OSM readings, I thought that a terrace was something very special, but, according to dictionary.com , a terrace is most exactly like French, mainly a) raised ground, b) flat top of a

[Tagging] What is a terrace after all?

Hi, According to my OSM readings, I thought that a terrace was something very special, but, according to dictionary.com , a terrace is most exactly like French, mainly a) raised ground, b) flat top of a building c) an accessible area connected to a