2012/1/17 Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com>: > On 1/17/2012 8:10 AM, Simone Saviolo wrote: >> >> I find it useless to map such wide areas as landuses. There's no point >> in tagging a whole village's area as landuse=residential, and there's >> no point in making a sixty-km-wide polygon to indicate that between >> Parma and Reggio Emilia there's cultivated land. > > > I'm not suggesting either of these. But a single chunk of houses is clearly > all residential, whether it's the size of a few lots or a huge subdivision. > Splitting it at roads gives no benefit and complicates editing greatly. This > is just ridiculous: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=35.323225&lon=-119.077089&zoom=18
At all; this is how I would tag it. This is how I tag it, actually: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.301967&lon=8.444596&zoom=18&layers=M >> As to residential roads, I don't think they are part of the landuse. I >> agree that "service"s (especially driveways) and "living_street"s are, >> but a residential road is not a place to live, > > Neither is a lawn or swimming pool. I disagree. If the lawn and the swimming pool are part of a residence (not at a public park, for example, or not at a sport facility), then what do you do there? You relax, you spend time there, you "live" there. On the other hand, you don't "live" in the middle of the road. >> nor it is meant to be used only by the residents. > > So your cutoff would be whether through traffic is allowed? I have never thought of a rigorous definition; it seems quite evident to me. Whether through traffic is allowed is something I would describe with access tags. For example, there's a footway that connects the two sections of the complex I live in. This footway would be access=permissive: it's privately owned and it is supposed to be non-accessible to the general public, but there are two gates on it and they're open by day, so a few people actually use it to go from a street to the other. Through traffic (if pedestrian) is allowed, but I would not take the footway out of the residential landuse. The bottom line is: if you would live there, it's landuse=residential. If it's a road, I think we can agree that you wouldn't want to live there. Simone _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
