2010/2/3 Chango640 <[email protected]>: > I thought about using landuse=residential (which I'm already using in cities > and towns), but here in Argentina there is a strong difference between > ordinary neighbourhoods and gated communities.
Yes, that's what you are expressing with the subtags acess=private and probably community=gated (and or fenced=yes (?),the barrier around it, etc.). > Despite being called communities, they are actually private neighbourhoods > where people pay mainly for a reliable security service (the needs here are > different from the ones in developed countries), so you can't go in them as > you could in a normal neighbourhood, and usually the people who live in them > don't have the kind of relation that they would have if they lived, for > example, in religious communities. Besides, these "country clubs" (as we > call them here) are often built in the countryside rather than next to > cities, and have some independence. so far they seem nothing different from other gated communities in other parts of the world. > I think that your suggestion for a "community" tag is a great idea, but this > is something different, and wouldn't fit perfectly into that. As the tag > landuse=residential doesn't fit all the requirements of a gated community > either, I'm making this proposal. still those gated communities (even if it might be socially absent) have something in common: the developer and the contract their inhabitants usually signed, which limits their civil rights and puts restrictions on all spaces inside the gated community, so that public space disappears. (what I mean: they are a community by contract, even if not by common sense). > About the other suggestions, I agree with you. I may add that in gated > communities, the tag barrier=fence should be set by default, and the > entrances and internal streets should always be drawn. AFAIR the barrier=fence should not be applied to an area, what means in pratical to draw a second way atop the area limits (not really elegant). Another approach is to tag fenced=yes to the area (don't know if someone evaluates this though). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
