<div dir="ltr">Nick & John,<div><br></div><div>Determining where to draw the edge of landuse=residential can be difficult.<div>Here in Ethiopia most of the population lives in a rural setting where they farm areas of 1 to 10 hectares in size. </div><div><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/6.9634/38.4408">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/6.9634/38.4408</a><br></div><div>There are places where people live in villages, but often dwellings are quite dispersed.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would suggest that an additional landuse tag would be appropriate.</div><div><br></div><div>landuse=rural_residential ?</div><div>landuse=agriculture_residential ?</div><div>landuse=pastoral_agriculture ?</div><div><br></div><div>Additionally the highway tagging needs to be updated as well.</div><div><br></div><div>highway=rural_residential </div><div>deprecate highway=unclassified for highway=minor_road </div><div><br></div><div>These are some of the topics that I am hoping will be discussed at SOTM Africa in Kampala in July.<a href="http://sotmafrica.org/"> http://sotmafrica.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Emmor Nile</div><div>(Palolo)</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Nick Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.allen.54@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.allen.54@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Sorry<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Missed the list with my reply.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Nick (OSM=Tallguy)<br>my phone is responsible for any spelling mistakes!</div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Nick Allen" <<a href="mailto:nick.allen.54@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.allen.54@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: 28 Mar 2017 19:57<br>Subject: Re: [HOT] landuse=residential within landuse=residential<br>To: "john whelan" <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution"><div dir="auto">I think it depends on the project instructions. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For instance the Aweil tasks such as <a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2525" target="_blank">http://tasks.hotosm.org/pro<wbr>ject/2525</a><div dir="auto">Have a link to a very good diary entry with good screenshots indicating largish residential boundaries. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Some of the others say something like 2 buildings. <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Nick (OSM=Tallguy)<br>my phone is responsible for any spelling mistakes!</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 Mar 2017 18:48, "john whelan" <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_4027766190504649929m_-7801612215666724125quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm starting to see areas where someone has mapped a largish area landuse=residential and other mappers have tightly mapped groups of buildings and tagged landuse=residential within this.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm not sure whether to ignore them or delete one or the other?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thoughts please.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks John <br></div></div>
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