On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Simone Saviolo <simone.savi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also, in my mapping I've accounted for a possible future landuse=road. > Therefore, any landuse area is smaller than or equal to a block. Also, > as a consequence of this, parkings would be part of the landuse=road, > and not to be included in a retail landuse: after all, a supermarket > is used for retail, but a parking is not - it's used to park cars, and > cars are driven through it, so it's a road (also legally). The only > case where a parking would be embedded in a different landuse would > be, IMHO, private parkings: for example a privately-owned parking in > front of a house would fall under residential landuse (and unless it's > large, I would also advice against even drawing it*).
Here's a suburban mall in the US surrounded by parking (the parking hasn't been mapped, but it's almost the entire landuse=retail that's not the building): http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.48586&lon=-81.43105&zoom=17&layers=M The parking clearly belongs to the mall, both logically and legally. On the other hand, in a downtown area a parking lot is more often than not operated independently for profit, and is its own parcel of land. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
