Hi John, The best way of terracing a building into individual houses, but keeping the outline as something to tag for the terrace-as-a-whole, is to use the JOSM Terracer plugin, which you might be using already. Make sure you tick the "keep outline way" option. The validator (invoked when preparing to upload) will complain about overlapping buildings and/or buildings within buildings but you can ignore this. I've done this loads of times and here's a good example, where the name of the terrace (as detailed on a plaque/stone built into the front face of the terrace) bears no resemblance to the moden postal addresses of any of its members: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/273920508
Doing it this way won't "clutter up the map" either, as you can see from the rendered example. Hope this helps! Regards, *Paul* On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 at 12:51, John Rowbotham via Talk-GB < [email protected]> wrote: > Can I get some advice please on tagging a parade of terraced houses? I'm > in northwest England surrounded by thousands of old terraces often with > their own identity. > > > > Many of the rows built in the years following the 1890 Act consist of > about 10 houses and feature a plaque somewhere between the upstairs windows > of the middle properties. This handily states the year they were built > (which I can duly add to the 'start date' tag on the map). That plaque > also shows the name for the parade. These can be as banal as modern > housing development names (Park View, etc) but sometimes have a name > related to a builder, architect or local benefactor from the late Victorian > era. > > > > The correct postal address for each property is as you'd expect: house > number and road name. Not the name on the plaque. Sometimes individual > house have their own names as well on plaques, usually related to the > current owner (viz 'Dunromin' etc). These can easily be added to the House > Name tag. But the parade does have its own name, which is clear to see on > site and crucially, often used locally to identify the houses, area or > location. > > > > If I tag it under Name (ie the wiki's "The most prominent name on a sign > posted on the feature itself, especially for a feature in the built > environment") then for a parade of houses mapped individually, the map > shows the same name over and over again. > > > > So - what am I doing wrongly or how do I best record this name without > cluttering the map? > > > > Thank you, > > > > John. <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/no%20details%20provided%20here> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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