On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 at 10:09, bkil <bkil.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: You've described the difference between specifying the high level landuse > in an area (that may be even a few blocks large) compared to the proposed > micro-mapping on buildings. This is correct, but I would like to know the > reason, meaning what advantage would such a resolution carry to the map > consumer? >
About the only use I can think of is navigation. Some of us use building=church even when it is no longer used as a place of worship but has been converted for residential use because it is recognizable as a church. As in "Take the first left past the church." Not that building=church (without amenity=place_of_worship) is rendered differently from an ordinary building, but at least the information is there if you use the query tool. As in "I can see a church, is it that building on the map?" I'm not convinced of the utility of this proposal for navigation, though. Too subjective, too likely to change with time and not very usable. You see a building but nobody is there. Is that the one that is tagged as occupied or not? Is nobody there because it's a local holiday, or because the business has gone bust, or because when it was surveyed people were stripping the fittings, or...? -- Paul
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