How do you tag an area of 2 level houses in (suburban) Moscow? In the USA, it’s common to have 1 to 2 level detached houses in “old” neighborhoods near a city center which are considered “urban”.
And what about neighborhoods in Asian that are all single-level houses, but very close together (sometimes attaches to sharing side walks). This can be seen in old town and city neighborhoods here in Indonesia <i...@zverev.info> wrote: > 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 >
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