You are mostly correct, =rural is for quarter areas (that are bonded by streets and have no streets inside) that contain mostly one- or two-level houses, and =urban is for bigger (~4-5 levels), usually detached apartment buildings. The value of the tag is mostly used to assume height of buildings and in population density calculations. In high-rise areas and inner city blocks, buildings usually have more detailed tagging, that includes their height, type and possibly even number of entrances. These areas should also have residential=urban on their landuse.
The value is easy to determine from aerial imagery, so it allows for better area markup without surveying each building’s parameters. Ilya > On 11 Apr 2019, at 08:45, Ture Pålsson <t...@turepalsson.se> wrote: > > 2019-04-10 10:28 a écrit Joseph Eisenberg: >> [...] >> Does anyone feel like doing some research into how these tags is >> actually used, so that the wiki page can match? Or has anyone used >> this tag themselves? > > I took a quick look in Sweden. There are only a few hundred of them (369, to > be exact, in my database), nearly(?) all by the same mapper. The > residential=rural ones seem to be single houses or small groups of houses in > the countryside. The residential=urban ones are mostly groups of detached > houses within a village or town (like this one: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/209513955). If that is "urban", I'm not > sure how to tag high-rise areas or inner-city blocks! > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
