My concern is that OSM is/should be open to all. For it to succeed at that, it needs to be easily understood by all - but even I would struggle to define 'amenity' - it's not a familiar word to most people and it's a problem osm-wide with nomenclature like 'node' for point and 'way' for line - which I have 98% doubts about it even being correct.
On 15 May 2015 at 10:48, John Willis <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > Amenity=school should be landuse=school, for example. > > > That shows another fine example of a misunderstanding of the hub of the problem. Other than vertical areas, on the Earth and map, any area IS landuse - it has to be (landuse=ocean !!!!) so we get landuse=building even. So that raises the question as to whether 'landuse' adds any info value in tags to the object being mapped. 'Building' clearly does. Consider asking someone to: "Draw a building" "Draw an amenity" "Draw a landuse" Only the first example would produce satisfactory results (probably ending up as a house rather than an office block or a hospital). My conclusion is that landuse = area and area = landuse. Area is simpler to understand - I can "Draw an area" - if such a category is really necessary - after all, the fact an area is drawn confirms it's an area without the need to tag it as such (landuse/area). -- Mike. @millomweb <https://sites.google.com/site/millomweb/index/introduction> - For all your info on Millom and South Copeland via *the area's premier website - * *currently unavailable due to ongoing harassment of me, my family, property & pets* T&Cs <https://sites.google.com/site/pmailkeey/e-mail>
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