To add to this, you can also do a boundary relation with boundary=place
to map the area if it's clearly defined as well.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:boundary
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:boundary
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Thanks,
Andrew Welch
m...@andrewwelch.net
On 08/05/2025 9:46 am, Dave F via Tagging wrote:
If a data consumer wishes to calculate total residential areas,
including parks, cemeteries or schools within the areas will return
greater inaccurate data.
Removing parks, cemeteries or schools from within residential areas
increases the accuracy of the OSM database.
The place tag is predominately mapped as a node.
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/place
The name of a place applies to all landuses in that area, not just
residential.
Parks, cemeteries & schools are not "areas of land having predominantly
residential buildings such as houses or apartment buildings"
DaveF
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