On 26 July 2018 19:47:11 CEST, Sebastian <sebastian.spi...@gmail.com> wrote: >Thanks for this explanation. Detached sounds very strange to me. >Terrace house evokes in me the feeling of rice terraces or something >with a >distinct height difference between them. Terrace is a very common term and housing style in the UK, well England and Wales. It is usually used to refer to terraced houses built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. > >In Australia houses that share one or more walls with the next house >(can >be one or both sides) are called town houses. Interestingly this is the estate agent term used to describe modern terraced houses.
Phil (trigpoint) > >In Germany it's called 'Reihenhaus'. > >On 23 July 2018 at 00:27, Tom Pfeifer <t.pfei...@computer.org> wrote: > >> Probably the reason can be explained etymologically. >> >> In the UK, terraced houses (AmE row houses) are very common, so those >> lucky enough to hear less noise from their neighbours emphasize that >by >> owning a 'detached' (not attached to a terrace) or 'semi-detached' >(two >> houses sharing a wall) building. The detached/semi-detached also >allow >> outdoor access to the back garden, so the 'end-of-terrace' house is >> marketed with a similar advantage. >> >> In countries where terraced houses are less common, there is less >need to >> emphasize that the house is free-standing. Also, 'house' is easier to >> understand for a non-native speaker than 'detached'. >> >> tom >> >> >> On 22.07.2018 20:56, Mike H wrote: >> >>> The definitions of building=house and building=detached on the wiki >are >>> very similar and don't seem to have any meaningful difference. >>> >>> I've seen people say that house is meant for rowhouses, and detached >>> should be for stand-alone houses, but there is no documentation that >>> explains that. If that is the intended meanings of the tags, then >the wiki >>> pages need some work. >>> >>> As far as how I've seen things actually mapped, I've only ever seen >the >>> building=house tag. Taginfo shows 1.2 million uses of detached, and >27.2 >>> million uses of building=house, so they are both used quite a bit, >but >>> house is used a lot more. >>> >>> Can anyone elaborate on these tags, or have ideas on how they could >be >>> better written about? >>> >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dhouse >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Ddetached >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
