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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 6, 2020, 06:20 by 61sundowner@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div class="">On 3/6/20 7:22 am, Mateusz Konieczny
via Tagging wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 2, 2020, 20:16 by <a href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">steveaOSM@softworkers.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;" class="tutanota_quote"><div>"this IS residential landuse." (Not COULD BE, but IS). Yes,
this land might be "natural" now, including being "treed," but
I could still build a patio and bbq there after perhaps
cutting down some trees, it is my residential land and I am
allowed to do that, meaning it has residential use, even if it
is "unimproved" presently. <br></div></blockquote><div>It is a residential property, not a residential landuse.<br></div></blockquote><p><br></p><p>I have a few trees on my residential property. I use then for;
shade, to sit under, to have a BBQ under, read a book under, think
about things. People park their cars, caravans and boats under
them.<br></p><p>They are part of my home ... they are used by me ... as my
residence. <br></p><p>If trees are to be excluded from OSM residential landuse, will
grass and flowers be removed too? Are only buildings to be mapped
as residential landuse in OSM? I think that would be ridiculous. <br></p><p><br></p><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;" class="tutanota_quote"><div>These facts do add to the difficulty: OSM doesn't wish to
appear to be removing property rights from residential
landowners (by diminishing landuse=residential areas)<br></div></blockquote><div>Are there people somehow believing that edits in OSM affect
property rights and may remove them?<br></div><div>That is ridiculous.<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;" class="tutanota_quote"><div>but at the same time, significant portions of these areas
do remain in a natural state, while distinctly and presently
"having" residential landuse. <br></div></blockquote><div>For me and in my region (Poland) it would be treated as a
clearly incorrect mapping.<br></div></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Parks here can have scrub, trees, grass and /or flowers - that
does not mean they are not parks because of the land cover. <br></p><p>I would contend similar consideration by held for residential
landuse. <br></p></blockquote><div>Yes, landuse=residential may include areas with tree, I fully agree here.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But "portions of these areas
do remain in a natural state" with residential status limited<br></div><div>solely to legal status (land ownership, legal right to build something there and start using<br></div><div>this land as landuse=residential) cases seem quite dubious to me.<br></div> </body>
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