<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Neighborhoods and residential areas aren't the same thing, and shouldn't <br>
be treated as equivalent. E.g., in my city, there is a designated <br>
historic neighborhood with a name and explicit boundaries, spanning a <br>
few city blocks, and two residential areas with their own names inside <br>
it (an apartment complex with two high-rises, and a named stretch of <br>
mid-rises).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not just is it still the same thing, but I would argue you're doing it wrong if you tag a historic neighborhood as a neighborhood.</div><div><br></div><div>The reason why we have multiple pages dedicated to this <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic</a> is because something that's historic has a value totally aside from the value of things that are on-the-ground which is the primary guiding concept. If the neighborhood no longer exists in the form described, it's no longer a neighborhood <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Neighbourhood">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Neighbourhood</a></div><div><br></div><div>If anything it _should_ be,</div><div><br></div><div>* historic=neighborhood</div><div>* historic=residential; name=whatever</div><div><br></div><div>And that coexists well with "landuse=residential; name=whatever" today. While retaining the difference (that it no longer functions in that way).</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Evan Carroll - <a href="mailto:me@evancarroll.com" target="_blank">me@evancarroll.com</a></div><div>System Lord of the Internets</div><div>web: <a href="http://www.evancarroll.com" target="_blank">http://www.evancarroll.com</a><br></div><div><span>ph: <span title="Call with Google Voice"><a href="tel:+1-281-901-0011" target="_blank">281.901.0011</a><br><br><img src="https://stackexchange.com/users/flair/42701.png"><br></span></span></div></div></div></div>