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 option: *"A more detailed and recommended alternative is to map each dwelling separately using building <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building>=house <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dhouse>." )*
You can use the "terracer" plugin within JOSM: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Terracer *"Select the terrace outline way and use the Terrace tool (Shift-T by default) (optionally also select the street to auto-complete the road name - see below). It will ask for the range of house numbers and the interpolation between them as well as, optionally, the road name."* *"...After clicking OK, you are left with the houses selected so that entering additional shared tags is easier."* Joseph On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 9:28 AM André Pirard <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > According to my OSM readings, I thought that a terrace was something very > special, but, according to dictionary.com > <https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrace>, a terrace is most exactly > like French, mainly a) raised ground, b) flat top of a building c) an > accessible area connected to a building at ground or upper level, such as > for living or other purposes.. > But beside that, dictionary.com defines a Terrace as a plain row of > houses without a terrace at all and so does building=terrace > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dterrace>, unlike > French and Wikipedia which calls it Terraced_house > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_house> (adjective). > > Practically, I'm correcting hundredths of houses tagged at 3-5m+ away from > their true location, with incorrect shape and without any addr:* at all. > And during this I met areas tagged building=terrace that, of course, are > just as imprecise: they get across the houses. > If I map the houses that are inside, I get a very logical JOSM > congratulation: "building inside a building". > 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. > But I'm sure a reply will be "we" are not doing like that. Like what, > then. > What should I do? building=terrace > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dterrace> describes > mapping separate houses as an *alternative*. > Erase what another mapper did, and replace that element with houses? > While waiting, I converted them to landuse=terraced (invisible). > > 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. > No answer. > > All the best, > > André. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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