I agree that landuse should usually get no names. If a settlement has a name which is used only for administrative or postal purposes there is no need for a place=* feature, just use boundary=administrative/postal_code.
If the dispersed settlement is perceived as an settlement (I'm living in...) it should get a place=* element. Currently we categorize settlements by number of inhabitants, modified by importance. I would rather not open another dimension. The type of of a settlement can be deduced by processing the landuse inside. If there is use in a binary (yes/no) property it should be added to the place=* feature: e.g. dispersed_settlement=yes. But this looks more like job for Wikidata. Another big problem is the exclusive usage of settlement place as nodes. But dispersed settlements have no centre. I just drafted an article which presents solutions for settlements with centres. This would allow dispersed settlements to migrate from place node to area since they would not considered be problematic any more. All is detailed here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/place_areas _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
