Jul 6, 2020, 23:22 by o...@dead10ck.com: >> I'm also, in a more general sense, raising a question about the >> established conventions and whether it makes sense to be tagging the >> individual units as "buildings", when they are not really buildings >> in and of themselves, but sections of one larger building that >> contains several other units. >> > > To expand on this a bit, for example, if we are tagging a shopping > center that has one large building which contains several individual > shops, you tag the whole building with building=retail and amenity=* or > shop=*, not building=shop or something like that. It's just curious > that for terraces, the convention is to tag each individual unit as a > building in its own right. > Depends on whatever it is one large building or row of attached similar buildings. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace "Terraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows"
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