How to subdivide a building

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Hello all,

The building in this changeset, Changeset: 168884480 | OpenStreetMap, is in fact two buildings sharing an adjoining wall – structurally it may be two walls that back onto each other – and an extension on the car park end. They house 4 separate business, the co-op supermarket, N Y Wines and N Y Wine Bar, and Upholstery Specialists. It seems that the map treats the whole thing as the supermarket with the other businesses inside.

It is not a big issue, but it is wrong. I tried to update it by shrinking the co-op and creating another two adjoining buildings. Although I carefully laid the shared boundaries on top of each other, the map gave me a warning that the buildings were overlapping.

Is there a way to resolve the issue?

Many thanks,
G

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Which editor are you using. With JOSM you could simply have split the building. I would re-use the nodes where the buildings touch so that the wall is guaranteed to not overlap itself.

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You probably just moved the corners close together. If you mark the corners you should be able to join them - thats should be an extra command.

In JOSM you could simply add another point in the middle, mark the two points and press ALT-X to split the building on the two points. And its properly joined together.

But @BCNorwich seems to have solved this already :slight_smile: Way History: ‪Co-op Food‬ (‪616021763‬) | OpenStreetMap Maybe you can check it out now.