Martin, landuse=residential has been a common tag employed by remote mappers to identify densely settled areas. Ideally the tag should be removed after all building footprints have been traced. As there is no way of knowing if the landuse is actually residential, commercial etc.
On Jul 26, 2017 16:40, "Martin Koppenhoefer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 25. Jul 2017, at 18:24, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I think the convention is if you see a settlement with side streets in a > grid pattern its more than likely a settlement and can be labelled > landuse=residential. > > > I believe you should use place=* for whole settlements, the landuse > property is for mapping actual landuse. > > Cheers,Martin > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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