Ah, but actual village/place boundaries can't really be determined via imagery; so we 'traditionally' mark areas that look residential/lived in with landuse=residential and handle any place boundaries with import, etc. =Russ
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Norman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 4:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HOT] Quick question on village mapping On 10/28/2015 2:53 AM, Pete Masters wrote: > Hi all, > > If you are adding field data to an existing shape > (landuse=residential), would you tag the shape as place=village / > name=whatever or would you add a node and tag the node. > > I've generally done the latter, but am seeing quite a few villages in > Chad that conform to the former. landuse is not for mapping places, but land usage. If you want to show the extents of a village, use a place polygon. If the extents of the two are the same, you could put them both on the same object. _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
