<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 21, 2018, at 6:17 PM, Anton Klim <<a href="mailto:tohaklim@gmail.com" class="">tohaklim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I’m not sure I understand why it would be a landuse instead of an amenity tag on the area, or the other way round? Are landuses supposed to be for larger areas?</span></div></blockquote></div><div><br class=""></div>landuse areas can be as small as the land for housing plot, a factory building, or a convenience store. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/36.30597/139.32742" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/36.30597/139.32742</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">look at the landuse polygons there. <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just like parks or farmland, they can be very big - or very small. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">landuse does *not* show zoning or what is “allowed” it is used to denote the general purpose of the area when mapped in large polygons **or** to denote the extenant of a single map pin (ie, the retail land a mall sits on, the land used by a single factory in a industrial zone. if you are in a mixed area - you might have a ton of different landuses. ) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">the landuse is often several times bigger than the building, allowing the amenities of the site to be grouped together logically </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">older tags (like school) use one tag to define the landuse as well, just train station or fire station. But this is a tagging discrepancy (to me). landuse is used for the other tags discussed. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would prefer that this discrepancy is evenutally resolved (landuse=school) - but tags like school are way too entrenched to ever be changed. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">new tags created should follow the landuse=* model, but the older way of using area=yes+building=yes/no is still common, and some people might like it better - or wonder what landuse=* is for. </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div></body></html>