<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 30, 2015, at 4:55 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" class="">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">indeed the buildings are just buildings (eventually with own names, start dates and other attributes) , it's not them to put the name for the "whole" complex on. But IMHO it's neither a landuse object, it's an object with a different tag that defines it. We still need a tag for gated communities? Fine, lets introduce one.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why is that any different than a condo complex? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">both are privately owned residences with a common management/ HOA company, with access control on a well defined landuse. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why is tagging a residential thing different in any way from a industrial thing? why is the governmental stuff completely missing?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">again. Confusing. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lay down a general category landuse. add a tag denoting it’s particulars ( is it a works, a mall, a city hall complex, or a apartment complex?)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Add the building=* areas (church, office, apartment, industrial building) and the ref/name and all the other building crap.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">lay down the roads and amenities inside the landuse.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">if you want a tag to say “this residential area is a gated community” to put on the landuse (like adding mall or works or whatever) that’s fine. but my interest is standardizing and completing the landuse tag usage. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why have landuse at all if you don’t finish the categories it could be used for? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why have a landuse=* at all to denote area if you will deny its use (arbitrarily) for some kinds of building complexes but use it on others?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It really is a big mystery for me - and the fundamental conflict I an trying to solve - as standardizing the landuse=* tag would greatly help the mapping of urban and suburban cities - as not only laying out the primary landuse let you understand the city, and then adding the exception building or amenity *more accurately labels and represents the real world* - not to mention getting rid of so much ambiguity and cruft on tagging things by their area (schools, hospitals, etc) - because eventually, every single square meter of a city will have it’s areas denotes - so why keep a scattershot and inconsistent method that varies across so many things? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw. </div></body></html>