On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/1/17 Volker Schmidt <[email protected]>:
>> it is >> simply not helpful from a practical point of view. What additional >> information do I gain from excluding the road from the landuse area, it is >> anyway clear that people do not live on roads. > > you get the border between public and private land. Why is that not > helpful or interesting? You get the border between public and private land _wrong_. In my experience, the property line is not at the curb, but some distance back from the curb. A reserved area is held for utilities, road expansion, snowplow debris, etc. I am not a fan of individual landuse areas for each block, or even worse individual landuse areas from each property / building. There is not necessarily a direct connection between landuse and zoning. Is a home-based daycare residential or commercial, or commercial / residential. (Or residential commercial=permissive) What about a home-based medical practice or barber shop? Locally, zoning is only directly observable when an application for a zoning change requires a posted sign. Even then, While the land owner has "applied for permission to build an 8-storey residential building atop a two-story commercial shopping area (and underground parking)", that isn't the current landuse. It's currently a disused gas station. The correct landuse or zoning is unknowable from a casual OSM foot survey or aerial imagery. Instead, map what is knowable and observable. building=shop, shop=convenience or building=house or amenity=doctors, etc. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
