[Talk-GB] Terraced Houses Mapping - JOSM and iD

[Rupert Allan]

Also, if JOSM Terracer plug-in allows for
'building=[residential/terraced_house]' for each house, that would be
perfect.

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On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, 15:13 Rupert Allan, <mail at rupertallan.com> wrote:

> Tony, tracing/mapping individual houses in the first pass will be what we
> will be aiming for (-resources for a second JOSM tracing will be limited),
> so this makes a lot of sense.
>
> For the kind of  'full coverage'  needed, it is only realistic to remote
> map once, and allot the number of households as soon as possible.
>
> So the phases look like this:
>
> 1st: delineating structures (per house)
>
> 2nd: attaching (naming/other) data in field surveying
>
> I like the 'building=terraced' as a first-phase tag, but for us,
> 'building=residential' would be sufficient. This is a community inclusion
> project, and we expect to encourage novice mapping with ID. So keeping this
> Phase 1 part really really simple is important.
>
> I am thus inferring that 'building=residential' might be best in this
> context...
> Thoughts?
>
> Best,
>
> Rupert
>
>
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>
> On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, 10:45 Tony Shield, <tonyosm9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> With terraces life has become easier with better Bing aerial photography
>> and UK Cadastral.
>>
>> Aerial shows me the terrace outline and usually the boundary walls or
>> garden hedges & fences thus allowing me to identify individual houses
>> within the terrace, cadastral where present usually allows me to confirm
>> the number of house.
>>
>> Using the UPRN views also allows me to count the houses in a terrace and
>> thus confirm my aerial observation.
>>
>> If any of them don't look/feel right then leave as a terrace block and
>> get on my bike.
>>
>> With the terraced houses individually mapped then StreetComplete allows
>> me to easily add the house numbers as I quickly walk by.
>>
>> I've created this workflow by reading wiki, listening to members on this
>> forum and a teeny bit of thought on my part.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tony - TonyS999
>> On 04/04/2021 10:28, Rupert Allan wrote:
>>
>> Thanks so much for this. I'll incorporate it to the plan.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Rupert
>>
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>>
>> On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, 10:19 Stephen Colebourne, <scolebourne at joda.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 10:11, Rupert Allan <mail at rupertallan.com> wrote:
>>> > I am new to this group, and very happy to be part of it. Thank you!.
>>> Can anybody give me guidance on UK conventions on Terraced House mapping in
>>> post-industrial areas (where terraced houses are nearly always just numbers
>>> on a street)?
>>> >
>>> > We are remote-mapping an area near home, in the South Wales Valleys,
>>> and need more to identify individual households than terraces as 'terrace'
>>> - that only referring to the architectural style, not part of the property
>>> 'identity'. (Culturally, these houses are individual and should be seen
>>> that way).
>>> >
>>> > So: would it be building=residential, then the number (if given), or
>>> what would be the best advice? Can we do this and also tag 'house=terraced'
>>> for stock data/infrastructure uses (not currently relevant to us).
>>>
>>> Here are streets of terraces near me:
>>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.40826/-0.22544
>>>
>>> Each one is a separate "building=house" with its own address.
>>>
>>> You can draw the whole row as a single outline (building=terrace) but
>>> it will probably get split into individual houses by someone later, so
>>> its better to do the splitting up front (and JOSM terracer plugin
>>> makes it easy).
>>>
>>> Stephen
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