On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 22:41, Skyler Hawthorne <o...@dead10ck.com> wrote:
> > My own personal interpretation would be to say that if two houses share > a wall, they are part of the same building. Buildings are expanded all > the time. If a shopping mall expands a wing to give more space for more > shops, we do not say the new section is a separate building; we say the > building has gotten larger. > Copyright prevents us using Google Streetview for mapping, but we can use it for illustrative purposes. https://goo.gl/maps/o6ribodaAqUhvak2A That group of five dwellings was originally called Priory Terrace (the name is not part of the address and few people know it used to be called that). They were built at the same time by the same builder and are listed by a heritage organization as being of significant value. Talk a walk to the north-east (left in the image) and you will see a long line of conjoined buildings of different styles. Most (all?) of those other buildings were built after the first 5, yet it would be perverse to describe them as extending or enlarging those original 5 dwellings. They're houses that happen to share side walls (because it's cheaper and lets them take up less room). I said this earlier in the thread, but I think it is still applicable: > when we're tagging shopping centers, where there is a large building > containing several shops, we tag the large structure as > building=retail, and the shops as amenity=*; we do not map them as > building=shop or something like that, because they are not separate > buildings. Why do this for houses/dwellings? > Because if you followed that Streetview walk, you'd have countered 33 dwellings in that terrace. It's nice to be able to give them addresses. Because they're of different sizes, it's nice to show where the boundaries between them are. This is the start of that walk: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.08572&mlon=-4.65826#map=19/52.08572/-4.65826 Your personal justificatons for your mapping choices are perfectly > fine, but that's not what I'm proposing changing. Since it is not well- > defined what to do when a terrace has a name, that is why I am > proposing the tagging scheme with a different usage of building=terrace > than what you and the wiki say, My opinion counts for no more than anybody else's, so you are free to disregard it. Redefining established use of a tag is problematic. To say the least. -- Paul
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