[Tagging] Townhouse

[Volker Schmidt]

I don't know what Hans had in mind, but a short look at Wikipedia
illustrates that there is a problem with this term.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse

(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse_%28Great_Britain%29

(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_of_local_government

And Wikipedia has problems too:

(1) points to http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_h%C3%B4tel in Spanisch,
which is in reality the equivalent of (2)


We should not use it in OSM to avoid ambiguity

The term Terraced Houses seems to be established. And there is a wiki page
on it:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dterrace

There is even a JOSM plugin for this:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Terracer

Volker



On 20 July 2014 10:10, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>  What's your definition of townhouse? I suspect this word may be in use
> around the world, meaning different things. What are the essential
> characteristics? We have to try to be objective - it IS what is IS, but
> what it is CALLED may vary.
>
>
> On 2014-07-20 06:08, Hans De Kryger wrote:
>
> Anyone know the tag for townhouses?
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