[Tagging] Block names (vs street names) in Brasilia

[Alex Barth]

Pieren - thanks for pointing out that "area=yes" is highway only. How could the documentation for it be clearer [1]?

Seems to me then that starting to use a value "block" for the "place" [2] key would be an appropriate solution.

Examples:

So for a block QNB12 in Brasilia, the tagging would be:

place=block
name=QNB12

For a block C2 in Mannheim, the tagging would be:

place=block
name=C1

(right now I find area=yes instead of place=block in Mannheim)

Comments?

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:area
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place


On Apr 24, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Pieren wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm liking the `area=yes` as seen in Mannheim [1] better than `place=neighbourhood`. Thoughts?
> 
> Oh no, please. area=yes has been created to distinguish highway loops
> and highway areas. For me, a tag "area=yes" not combined with a
> "highway" is a mistake. Then better use "place=neighbourhood".
> 
> Pieren
> 
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