On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have been recently discussing on the German ML about > landuse=residential. In Germany many mappers were mapping subdivisions > / neighbourhoods [1] with landuse=residential. This led to very rough > landuse information, because in order to keep the (sometimes quite > big) area as a whole they are forced to ignore landuses that don't > fit. > > I think that the information about these areas belongs to a distinct > entity and would best fit into the "place"-namespace because I see > them as subdivision of settlements (or more precise subdivisions of > what we call "suburb" in OSM). > > If we could agree that the information about which areas as a whole > form a distinct unit (part of a suburb) should go into the place tag, > we would be more flexible when deciding where to apply landuse to. > Part of the current discussion results from the mixing of namespaces: > landuse is used to map settlement subdivisions which are IMHO defined > by other properties (like morphology, history, culture, typology, ...) > then just similar landuse. There is also areas which do combine > different subareas with different landuses (impossible to map this > with landuse-areas without either ignoring bigger parts of different > use or loosing the entity as a whole).
While you didn't specifically ask questions about tagging neighborhoods, please consider reading and contributing to the wiki page on the subject: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Neighbourhood It would be nice to ensure the discussions on the German ML are integrated in that or related wiki page, and preferably in English so as to reach a larger audience. Thanks! -Josh _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
