On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Sebastian Klein <basti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > from what I understand, landuse is to mark a larger area that has multiple > entities of a certain type: > > * landuse=industrial - multiple different industrial companies at that > place > * landuse=allotments - area with a lot of gardens > * landuse=residential - multiple residents living there > (But if there are a couple of doctors and restaurants mixed in, it is still > residential area.) > > What I'm trying to say: No need to create a landuse area for each building > or single tourist attraction. Seems like it would be useful to mark off the commercial/retail areas from the housing. Note that I'm thinking from a suburban point of view; urban (and new urbanist) development with everything together would be different. For an example (not fully mapped yet), see here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.45477&lon=-81.4931&zoom=16&layers=M Each housing subdivision has its own multipolygon with a name, as does each shopping center and each office park.
> If you like to mark a larger hospital area, why not use a site relation? It doesn't look like that proposal is well-developed: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Site For example, how would one tag the boundary, especially if it has inner ways? Is a renderer supposed to interpret it like a multipolygon, or is it solely for searching? _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
