2012/1/21 Anthony <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Bryce2 Nesbitt <[email protected]> wrote: >> The road is a road: it has meaning, semantics, access rules. >> It is fully capable of representing itself overlaid on various land >> use: be they forest, residential, military or commercial. > > I'm not talking about the road, though. I'm talking about the land. > The road is built *on* the land, just as the residence is on the land. > Part of the land is set aside legally for putting things like houses > and pools and gardens and other "residential" things. Part of it is > set aside legally for putting things like roads and sidewalks and > light poles and gutters.
+1 >> I think that landuse should refer to broad areas. Parcel and >> ownership data is interesting... but I'd rather get that from the >> public record. > > You can always generate broad area land use data from parcel level > land use data, but you can't do the latter. +1, that's also the reason for which I prefer finer granular objects and not the huge ones (which btw. tend to become hardly managable multipolygon-monsters by the time). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
