[OSM-newbies] How to use landuse?

[Andy Allan]

Hi David, and Gerco-Kees,

This came up recently on the talk list. You can read what I wrote
previously about overlapping areas here:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-November/020431.html
(and the rest of the thread has some interesting points too).

Mis-using layer=-1 was discussed here:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-October/019071.html

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Andy


On Dec 13, 2007 4:59 PM, Gerco-Kees Bloemsma <gercokees at gmail.com> wrote:
> I draw a boundary around the city and tag it as:
> landuse=residential and layer=-1
> Inside that boundary-line i can draw areas with landuse=park, retail,
> graveyard and so on. This inner areas do not have to have the layer-tag,
> because the default would be layer zero, wich is ontop of  the -1 layer....
>
> Succes
>
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2007 5:12 PM, David James <david at djames.org.uk> wrote:
> > I'm not sure that I understand landuse tags properly, and newbies seems
> > like the best list to ask this on first.
> >
> >
> > Having discovered from a discussion on the talk mailing list that abbuters
> > isn't being used by the renderers, I decided to start using landuse ...
> >
> >
> > So, for my home town, using the Yahoo background in Potlatch, coupled with
> > local knowledge, I can draw an approximate closed outline of the town and
> > tag it as landuse=residential.
> >
> > Inside that, of course, there are areas that should be tagged with
> > different landuses; probably at least: retail, industrial, commercial,
> > cemetary, recreation_ground.
> >
> > Can I just overlay smaller areas with these tags on top of the
> > landuse=residential area? or should I split up the larger residential area
> > into smaller pieces so that the smaller areas do not overlay the bigger
> > area? What is the recommended way of doing this?
> >
> > Then there are also areas where the appropriate tagging comes from the
> > leisure key (sports_centre, golf_course, pitch, park, and garden to name a
> > few) or the amenity key (parking, public_building, grave_yard, school,
> > hospital, town_hall), and probably other keys too.
> >
> > How should the landuse and leisure/amenity/other keys interact, i.e. if I
> > have an area that has an appropriate leisure/amenity/etc tag, should there
> > also be a landuse tag on the same (or a larger area), or should it be
> > outside any landuse area?
> >
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