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I'm British, and I associate the term 'townhouse' (at least in
estate agents' blurb) with a house in a town having more than the
usual two storeys, and usually not detached. The OED supports this
meaning, though the earlier meaning was 'A house in a town or city;
esp[ecially] one belonging to someone who has another property in
the country.'<br>
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The 'town hall' meaning is in there as well, and also an obsolete
meaning of 'workhouse'.<br>
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If you're drawing buildings, whether a house is terraced or not
should be apparent from the geometry without any special tagging.
There's probably also a tag to indicate the number of storeys, so
I'm not sure a specific tag for a townhouse is needed.<br>
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Steve<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/07/2014 00:51, Martin
Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
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Am 20/lug/2014 um 07:10 schrieb Paul Johnson <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>>:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I'd tag it as building=house and subdivide it as
necessary similar to a stripmall if you know where the walls
between units/addresses are.</div>
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<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I'd probably
use building=terraced_house for all recent developments I know
who call themselves townhouse, but looking into WP showed that
in Britain the meaning "</span><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">refers to the town or city residence
of a member of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobility"
title="Nobility" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;
box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">nobility</a> or <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentry" title="Gentry"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;
box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">gentry</a>,
as opposed to their country seat"</span><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse_%28Great_Britain%29">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse_(Great_Britain)</a></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">(different meanings
in AE and BE of the same word somehow make it less usable as a
tag (I.e. townhouse), because you'll get more mistagging than
the average whatever you define in the wiki)</div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> "house" alone is
quite generic and also used for detached houses, better go for a
little more specificity</div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">cheers,</div>
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