Tag:house=terraced

house=terraced
Description
Used in addition to building=house to map the individual units in a terrace. Preferred over mapping the whole terrace as one building.  
Group: Buildings
Used on these elements
Useful combination
See also
Status: in use

This tag can be used in addition to building=house to map the individual units in a row of houses that form a terrace. These are known as "rowhouses" or "townhouses" in North American English.

This is preferred over mapping the whole terrace as building=terrace by some mappers.

How to map

Draw an area for each unit in the terrace, ensuring they have at least two nodes connecting the units together.

Alternate tagging

There are many ways of mapping terraces, these can be seen of the wiki page Tag:building=terrace.

The house=terrace tag is currently used identically to house=terraced by some, but is not the recommended form. Instead house=terrace is recommended to be used only on the terrace as a whole - i.e. if the terrace has not been split into individually mapped houses.

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