[Tagging] How to map terrace buildings with names

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Jul 7, 2020, 13:20 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:

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>> On 6. Jul 2020, at 22:42, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> According to the wiki page about building=terrace, it is usually best practice to map each house as a separate area (closed way) object. 
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>> ">> 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>>> , but keeping at least two nodes in common for adjoining houses."
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>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:building%3Dterrace
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>> If you map each house individually, it is not necessary to map the whole outline of the row of houses.
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> right, but the question was: how do you add a name to the ensemble? 
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> I.e. an entity is required where the name can be attached to.
> An alternative could be to add addr:housename to the individual houses, but it would not exactly be the same thing. It would look like many adjacent houses which all bear the same name.
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Is the name applied to the building set or a residential area? Maybe it can be added to
landuse=residential?

If it applying to entire row then repeating it on each building would be probably incorrect.
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