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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 2, 2020, 22:32 by steveaOSM@softworkers.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Jun 2, 2020, at 1:25 PM, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>> should the entirety of the underlying area be tagged landuse=farmland or landuse=residential?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Neither: just tag the areas that are used for residences as landuse=residential, and the area used for farming (mostly crops) as landuse=farmland.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can certainly appreciate how this is an easy suggestion from the author of a renderer, but it diminishes from our map the extent of property rights of the owner of the residence / farmland.<br></div></blockquote><div>OSM is not a place to map property rights.<br></div><div><br></div><div>And landuse=residential is certainly not a tool for mapping boundaries of owned areas or<br></div><div>property right boundaries.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>In OpenStreetMap we want to map what is actually there, not the zoning or legal landuse or property boundaries.<br></div><div><br></div><div>What is actually there are property rights, which is what I take as the meaning of "landuse=residential."<br></div></blockquote><p>landuse=residential is an area of land dedicated to, or having predominantly residential buildings<br></p><div>such as houses or apartment buildings.<br></div><div><br></div><div>In many cases (properties for solely residential use) it coincides with areas owned by people<br></div><div>owning a house.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But it is not always true, if you have a property with forest/farmland - then part of your property will be<br></div><div>landuse=residential and part of it will be landuse=farmland (or =forest or =industrial or =construction<br></div><div>or something else in other cases).<br></div><div><br></div><div>In some cases, especially with tree-covered areas part of area may be covered by two such areas.<br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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