[OSM-talk-ie] Dividing houses with returns as terrace

[Nick Burrett]

On 8 August 2015 at 16:36, Brian Hollinshead <brian at hollinshead.net> wrote:

> I have routinely used the terracer plugin in JOSM to divide a long/single
> building into a set of terraced houses.
>
> Recently I was talking OSM to a librarian from Casimir Road, Harolds Cross,
> Dublin, I asked would he like to share the house numbers with me if I added
> the outlines first. He readily agreed.
>
> When I got home I found someone has already kindly added most of the
> buildings carefully showing the return in each case. I cannot get the
> terracer plugin to like trying to divide such a building into two equal
> rectangular halves.
>

I have only ever achieved that by drawing a large outline of the terrace,
then drawing the lines to split the houses and manually splitting the
outline into several houses.  Very tedious, so I don't bother these days,
choosing to terrace as a block and add the house numbers, which I find to
be more important than the shape.

Regards,

Nick