It seems to me that landuse is a mess. There are the obvious values like residential, commercial, and industrial, but beyond those are a lot of minor values that could be grouped much better into a few values. For example: landuse=agricultural would include values like farm and vineyard landuse=institutional would include values like military and cemetery, as well as schools landuse=transport would include values like railway and garages, as well as other transport like highway junctions landuse=leisure would include leisure and tourism as well as some amenities
Then there are values like grass and reservoir that are not quite landuse. In particular, reservoir, unlike other landuse tags, only applies to the area that's normally flooded, rather than the land immediately adjacent that is also owned by the water control authority (containing berms and such). This would be like tagging only houses as landuse=residential and leaving the yards and driveways untagged. I've written up a possible classification here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:NE2/landuse Ideally this could also serve as a framework to eliminate many amenity values (institution=post_office, leisure=stripclub). Amenity is currently used for two different types of objects: those that can be standalone buildings, and small objects that are almost always placed on larger pieces of land or inside buildings (like waste_basket, post_box, and drinking_water). The former are probably all classifiable under a single type of landuse. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
