On 12/04/19 19:02, Ilya Zverev wrote:
I agree the naming is a bit off, since in Russia it is common to have buildings
in medium-sized cities “sorted” by height from outskits towards the center :)
The only criteria is a number of families living in a building, actual height
does not matter. One or two — this is “=rural”, more — “=urban”. Density does
not matter as well: one building is as good as 100. So yes, in the US and asian
countries you can have residential=rural in city centers.
I doubt retagging all these 200k keys would be a good practice, since some data
analysts in Russia and Belarus rely on these values for calculating population
density.
Ilya
From
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like#Documenting_tags_not_in_Map_Features
Just be prepared that someone else might later propose a different and more
structured scheme for documenting
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Comparing these values way in which they are used to the English meaning of the
words makes a nonsense of them.
I think they are prime examples of requiring a retag into a more sensible
tagging scheme.
While it is regrettable for all, it does suggest that the originator of the
tags should have sought some help with the tagging.
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