[Tagging] musings on landuse

Simone Saviolo simone.saviolo at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 14:30:30 BST 2010


I've used landuse in a slightly different way from what you say.

After discussion on the talk-it ML, we agreed that single shops in a
mainly residential block would be added as POIs, but not mapped as
landuse=retail. However, if the shop was a separate building, then the
landuse there would be retail. No overlapping between landuse areas;
every single point would be residential or retail or commercial or...
but this excludes nested landuses.

Also, in my mapping I've accounted for a possible future landuse=road.
Therefore, any landuse area is smaller than or equal to a block. Also,
as a consequence of this, parkings would be part of the landuse=road,
and not to be included in a retail landuse: after all, a supermarket
is used for retail, but a parking is not - it's used to park cars, and
cars are driven through it, so it's a road (also legally). The only
case where a parking would be embedded in a different landuse would
be, IMHO, private parkings: for example a privately-owned parking in
front of a house would fall under residential landuse (and unless it's
large, I would also advice against even drawing it*).

You can see an example of this here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.317397&lon=8.429837&zoom=18&layers=M.

Regards,

Simone

* It may be useful to draw private parkings when there is no physical
access restriction, to warn drivers that they are not allowed to park
there even if they could. But this is off-topic.



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