2015-03-11 12:06 GMT+00:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>: > > 2015-03-11 12:56 GMT+01:00 Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org>: >> >> As you can see, each block is subdivided into land plots - each with a >> courtyard and several buildings that usually all belong to an extended >> family. Those land plots have a strong significance and the frequent >> sighting of spontaneous attempts by to map them in various ways is testimony >> to that. >> >> I do not yet have an answer to this requirement - it should obviously be >> mapped as an area but I have so far failed to select satisfactory attributes >> to model it. I believe that landuse=* is not suitable - in Senegal, as >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:WikiProject_Senegal recommends, the >> whole urban area is landuse=residential, so it is not available to map >> smaller subdivisions. > > > > > maybe a new place value? Of the existing ones, maybe place=neighbourhood? > Although this is a really small nieghbourhood compared to other areas with > this tag. > > I don't see a problem in the whole area being landuse=residential, still you > could split these into several smaller landuse=residential, but I agree that > there will be no inherent semantics about the special situation there with > just the landuse tag.
I also think that landuse=residential, plus name=* or whatever, is fine. It's how I and some others map "housing estates" in the UK. I might "carve out" a portion of the larger landuse=residential. (Not everyone does it this way.) Dan _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
