<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"><div>To use landuse=residential area to map, say, a neighbourhood, which
encapsulates the landuses mentioned above, is wrong. <br>
It should be used just to map where people live. They don't live in
schools & parks.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>That's not true. landuse=residential doesn't mean "house". It means the land serves residential use, as compared to an industrial use, or a commercial use. <br><br>> <span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">An area of land having predominantly residential buildings such as houses or apartment buildings.</span></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Predominantly, doesn't mean exclusively. Schools and parks are fine for landuse residential. Moreover, _some_ commercial use is even fine for landuse=residential (though I would never do it). The wikipage on landuse=residential explicitly allows it, "This is the mapper's decision. If you want to make a hole for another landuse inside a residential area, you can use a multipolygon relation."</div><div><br></div><div>Wikipedia has a page on "Residential Area" which I map to our own landuse=residential, it says</div><div><br></div><div>> Curving streets, greenbelt parks, neighborhood pools, and community entry monumentation appeared.<br><br>That doesn't mean the area stopped being residential when those things emerged. That's why I made the post here anyway. The idea that one of them includes holes for something arbitrary like pools, parks, and schools isn't a good idea imho. But at least you're trying to create a distinction. I don't think that exists in OSM, but at least if we can create it and document it the tags will be different.</div><div><br></div><div>In practice they're the same. And let's assume we did create that distinction. How do you want that to work? If a landuse=residential has no parks, schools, or pools inside it do you want it to have an overlapping polygon that conveys the same information as a neighborhood? Do you want people to have to query for both of these to make use of OSM?</div><div><br></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>