[Tagging] Tagging private property

[Megha Shrestha]

Thanks for the suggestion. I think I got the answer. The unused land is the
land scheduled for construction purpose. Is this suitable to use landuse =
residential for such property??

Megha Shrestha
Geomatics Engineer
Intern
Kathmandu Living Labs

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> 2015-01-02 10:25 GMT+01:00 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>:
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>> Landuse=residential ?
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> +1, but it wouldn't have connotations about the structure (one plot or
> several plots or only part of a plot), only on the type of landuse.
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>> Normally a village/town/city is marked this way.
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> -1, villages, towns and cities are marked with place=village/town/city,
> not with landuse. The key landuse is for the use of land.
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>  Also how can you tag a private property which is unused?
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> it's hard to say what "unused" is intended to mean here, for residential
> land with no residents, one might think that it is unused (as residential
> land), but could still be used in different ways, e.g. as a meadow or
> garden, to store stuff etc. For residential land with no constructions on
> it, we typically use either landuse=green_field (land scheduled for
> construction but no construction yet started) or brown_field (land with
> former use, potentially contaminated, potentially old buildings on it).
> Please note that the latter 2 tags don't fit well into the landuse scheme,
> as they are also about scheduled constructions and legally possible
> constructions, while the landuse key normally indicated the actual current
> landuse for the land it is tagged on.
>
> cheers,
> Martin
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