Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential

Surely population density could be accessed more accurately by numbers of > buildings than by sizes of "blobs", which are outlines very inconsistently ? > > > *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 29. März 2017 um 10:33 Uhr > *Von:* majka <majka.zem+t...@gmail.com> > *An:* &

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential

, which are outlines very inconsistently ?     Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. März 2017 um 10:33 Uhr Von: majka <majka.zem+t...@gmail.com> An: "HOT@openstreetmap.org" <hot@openstreetmap.org> Betreff: Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential First, over

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential

> I already saw people replacing the landuse=residential tag by place=town over a precise urban area for some towns in Africa what I think is basically wrong because these places are generally larger than the residential area. I must confess I normally just add a landuse=residential to these.

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential

Hi, landuse=residential shows an urban or housing sprawl and therefore can cross various existing boundaries. boundary=* is related to an official or existing boundary and in the case of a village, it will encompass not only one residential area, but sometimes several and other kinds of landuses

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential

Thomas, thank you for the thoughts. I have looked at the building=farm and landuse=farmyard and believe they do not apply in here in Ethiopia.A building that is a dwelling should not be tagged as "farm". It is not possible to determine the use of a building from aerial imagery. Last week I was in

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential

First, overlapping landuse areas (even different ones) should *always* be corrected. It brings problems with the map data, I have seen and corrected areas where the overlapping did hide ponds from the rendered map. The *same* overlapping area masks some of the problems but should be corrected as

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential

Nick & John, Determining where to draw the edge of landuse=residential can be difficult. Here in Ethiopia most of the population lives in a rural setting where they farm areas of 1 to 10 hectares in size. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/6.9634/38.4408 There are places where people live in

[HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential

Sorry Missed the list with my reply. Nick (OSM=Tallguy) my phone is responsible for any spelling mistakes! -- Forwarded message -- From: "Nick Allen" Date: 28 Mar 2017 19:57 Subject: Re: [HOT] landuse=residential within landuse=residential To: "john