<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>Am 20/lug/2014 um 07:10 schrieb Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>>:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><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><div class="gmail_extra"></div></blockquote><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><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 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 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 href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse_(Great_Britain)">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><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><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><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">cheers,</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Martin</div></body></html>