[HOT] GNS name merging discussion thread

[Paul Norman]

On 8/14/2014 3:12 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
> As a general rule, we outline residential landuse areas using the tag 
> landuse=residential. There might be many for one village.
Sure - the only problem is when you can't be reasonably certain that 
what you're tracing is only residential. In those cases, 
landuse=residential is wrong.
> And we use a node to describe places. Exchanging such infos with 
> various humanitarian organizations, I think that we are better to keep 
> a data model where we make distinction between the nodes places=* and 
> the residential areas polygons.

Place tags on an area where that place has clearly defined bounds are 
not incorrect. Data consumers have to be prepared for either. For what 
it's worth, openstreetmap-carto doesn't handle this correctly and there 
are a couple of issues about it.