I don't know how common this practice is, but sometimes I see things like landuse=commercial and landuse=residential applied to a relatively large area.
2014-07-25 13:38 GMT-03:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>: > > 2014-07-25 3:33 GMT+02:00 johnw <jo...@mac.com>: > > But for a majority of the buildings I'm mapping here in rural/"suburban" >> Japan, there isn't as much mixed use or repurposed use as you would imagine >> - most homes are purpose-built 2 story, single family detached homes with a >> wall around them. It is very easy to designate their use. >> > > > yes, this is simple. You draw one, tag it and copy paste to bigger > configurations and then cp all over the place ;-) > > > >> ..., a cemetery, a buddhist temple, a 7-11, and ~10 detached homes. this >> is all within around 300m of my house in "rural" Japan. but every one of >> those has an easily defined border associated with the buildings - and an >> easily understood landuse tag to go with them. >> > 500m away is an elementary school, with no landuse value. it depends on >> amenity=school for **some unknown reason** to define it's landuse. Until >> recently, the temple also had no landuse value to define the area the >> temple grounds occupy, but now landuse=religious exists. >> > > > Maybe those landuse values haven't been proposed so far because the main > mapnik map didn't "need" them, the style painted these amenity areas > already ;-) > e.g. amenity=school/university implies landuse=education. In case of > religious things you will also have a "religion" attribute. You could of > course add additional landuse tags, but how would that bring a benefit? > The civic landuse sounds more interesting, because the list of possible > building types and users can be quite long and there is no religion-like > common attribute (or is it?). > > Cheers, > Martin > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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