[Tagging] landuse=residential and named residential areas which belong together (neighbourhoods/subdivisions?)

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On 08/29/2011 04:59 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> IMHO this is exactly driving us into a multipolygon mess, hard to edit
> and timeconsuming to use, with unneeded complexity.
What would you think about a stacked approach?


You draw a regular polygon around the entire city:
         landuse=residential
         stacking=0
Then draw regular polygons around the shopping district
(or just tag the parcel data):
         landuse=retail
         stacking=1
Add the parks within the commercial district
         landuse=recreation_ground
         stacking=2
Add the lake in the park, as a regular polygon
         natural=water
         stacking=3
Insert a the beach in the park, as a regular polygon
         natural=beach
         stacking=4
And over it all, a long skinny building:
         building=yes
         stacking=10  (note the non-default stacking order)
With a patch of green grass roof (a city park):
         landuse=recreation_ground
         stacking=11

This of course is reinventing the multipolygon 
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multipolygon_Examples> but would it 
end up simpler?
For one advantage: you loose the requirements of proper rings.
And you'd have no trouble with seams and edges (because overlapping 
would be OK).

For one downside: you have to parse everything in the bounding box 
before calculating areas.
As with bridges, to add a land use may require re-stacking various other 
things.
And you'd still have polygons at the edges of roads that need manual 
adjustment every time the road geometry is improved.
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