Martin Koppenhoefer writes:
landuse in OSM should be the actual landuse, not the legally permitted / designed landuse (zoning).
I do not disagree (meaning "I agree"), however: if my quarter-hectare property of low density residential zoning has a house, fences, a garage, lawns, a creek running along the backside of it and so is largely a riparian corridor, a garden and so on, are you saying that it is incorrect for me to have included my parcel in a larger "neighborhood" of landuse=residential (along with my neighbors), even though I don't include all of these specific "micro-mapping" elements? Where do you draw the lines of where appropriate landuse=residential tagging begin and end?
And again, as large areas (called "neighborhoods" or "quarters" or "districts" in any given local parlance) truly are exclusively residential, I still maintain that drawing an appropriate polygon around them and tagging landuse=residential is correct. This (again) is NOT the same as saying that they cannot be made MORE correct, rather that such tagging is "a good first step" and not entirely incorrect.
Perhaps a superior/outstanding example of what you consider to be GOOD landuse tagging is now in order. Thank you in advance for a link to such data. It is easy to point someplace and say it is wrong, or bad, or needs further explanation (OSM has plenty of those). It is a bit more difficult (though possible) to point to areas (such as Escondido) and say "they are on the right path to completion, but are not yet done." It is yet more difficult to point to excellent examples of landuse= tagging, so I now politely ask you to do so.
Let's not let perfection be the enemy of the good. If everything entered into OSM had to be perfect upon its initial upload, we'd still be back in the Stone Age of data entry. OSM is a work in progress, and likely always will be. We can strive for excellence without demanding perfection.
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