Jun 6, 2020, 06:20 by [email protected]: > On 3/6/20 7:22 am, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote: > >> >> >> >> Jun 2, 2020, 20:16 by >> [email protected]>> : >> >>> "this IS residential landuse." (Not COULD BE, but IS). Yes, this >>> land might be "natural" now, including being "treed," but I could >>> still build a patio and bbq there after perhaps cutting down some >>> trees, it is my residential land and I am allowed to do that, >>> meaning it has residential use, even if it is "unimproved" >>> presently. >>> >> It is a residential property, not a residential landuse. >> > > > > > I have a few trees on my residential property. I use then for; shade, to > sit under, to have a BBQ under, read a book under, think about things. > People park their cars, caravans and boats under them. > > > They are part of my home ... they are used by me ... as my residence. > > > If trees are to be excluded from OSM residential landuse, will grass and > flowers be removed too? Are only buildings to be mapped as residential > landuse in OSM? I think that would be ridiculous. > > > > > >>> These facts do add to the difficulty: OSM doesn't wish to appear >>> to be removing property rights from residential landowners (by >>> diminishing landuse=residential areas) >>> >> Are there people somehow believing that edits in OSM affect property >> rights and may remove them? >> That is ridiculous. >> >>> but at the same time, significant portions of these areas do >>> remain in a natural state, while distinctly and presently "having" >>> residential landuse. >>> >> For me and in my region (Poland) it would be treated as a clearly >> incorrect mapping. >> > > > > > Parks here can have scrub, trees, grass and /or flowers - that does not > mean they are not parks because of the land cover. > > > I would contend similar consideration by held for residential landuse. > > Yes, landuse=residential may include areas with tree, I fully agree here. But "portions of these areas do remain in a natural state" with residential status limited solely to legal status (land ownership, legal right to build something there and start using this land as landuse=residential) cases seem quite dubious to me.
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