On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Ben Laenen <benlae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Residential isn't exclusive at all. Not to say that what it's actually used > for in OSM can have different meanings amongst different mappers. You'll find > many parks in OSM for example inside a residential polygon.
park is "leisure", not "landuse" > I've never seen > holes in a landuse=residential polygon at locations where shops are. Excepted if you use landuse=retail (of course, not to be used for individual/small shops in the middle of a residence) > By far > most uses I've seen for landuse=residential are for areas which are generally > used for where people live, and usually have entire villages or cities inside > one polygon. That's not ground cover, that's telling what the area is used > for. This is because the work is not complete. This is the easy first step and later, contributors will fine tune the landuse polygones and identify retail or industries areas later. > Proper ground cover would have no such thing as a "residential area". It would > have tags for "building" (and subtags for what kind of building it is), or > "garden". "garden" like "park" already exists as "leisure", not landuse. > I'm not saying that current landuse=residential/industrial/... doesn't have > any merit. It's quite nice to make maps for big areas. But at the level where > you start to show individual buildings only proper ground cover can be used. > Either the landuse=residential/industrial/... kind of tags have to move out of > the landuse key, or we have to come up with something new. Then you just need to draw small landuse polygons. Why recreate the wheel ? Pieren _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
