On 10/11/22 19:45, Minh Nguyen wrote:
None of this is particularly relevant to Houston, but I don't think
there's any precedent or mechanism for formally deprecating a broadly
defined tag in only the places that satisfy certain criteria.
Houston has no zoning (the largest city in the US to not be zoned). Deed
restrictions are used to get some of the same results accomplished by
zoning in other cities. Note this applies only to Houston proper, not
suburbs (Tiki Island, Pleak, and Jersey Village are known by me to be
zoned, and there are probably others.)
That said, many areas will still qualify as a de facto residential,
commercial, retail, or industrial area, and so I avoid deleting
landuse=* unless it is clearly wrong/outdated.
If, like me, you want to see fewer unnamed landuse areas in your
backyard, map more named landuse areas corresponding to retail and
residential developments. These areas not only reduce the pressure to
"fill in" the map visually but also add information about the shape
of these developments that's often difficult to obtain from other map
services.
What I'd like to see less of is the use of dubious tag combinations like
this:
landuse=retail
amenity=fuel
shop=convenience
name=Exxon
or whatever the brand might be. First, the convenience store and fuel
should be separately tagged; I tag the fuel canopy (or an area near the
pumps if no canopy) as being the fuel station, and the building as the
convenience store (which also gets the address data if known).
Convenience stores may be inside a landuse area, but shouldn't be tagged
on the same way as a landuse area as I understand it.
--
Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com>
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