[Tagging] Landuse and Zoning (Was: Tagging for the Renderer)

[Ralph Dell]

Although I don't often reply to these threads I am going to give it a go and hope to be constructive in the attempt.

If Tom Hardy <rhardy702 at gmail.com> you are suggesting that landuse:<some adopted code>, I do not think that is that not a good idea. Zoning codes ( in the US) are all over the map, so to speak, and have very little if any consistency from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The county I live in have seven entities that assign zoning codes, and the best I can say about the codes is that  R-something implies residential, and C-something implies commercial. The code may or may not currently reflect how the land is currently used. The codes certainly are not the same as used in Minneapolis. In those parts of the world where there are zoning codes and boundaries I suspect there are other sources of authoritative geographic data outside of OSM the would be more accurate and meaningful sources of information for those that need zoning information.
I also admit I may have misunderstood what you were suggesting.

Ralph Dell

Javbw
> On Apr 18, 2017, at 7:41 AM, Tom Hardy <rhardy702 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> zoning

Although mapping zoning would be useful, perhaps that is some kind of boundary. 

I am referring to land being taken up by a city hall - the wall or hedges along the road, the sign out front that says city hall, the parking, the building, the city vehicle parking lot, etc. A lot of these city complexes are a singularly named place with several buildings (office, council chamber, tax office, etc), some of them quite large - but still on a single land use with a name and sign out front and a wall around it. 

The landuse I am referring to is that actual usage - not what it is zoned that it could be. In the US, zoning is by type, whereas in Japan it is by scope. There are tiny metal stamping shops making brackets for cars next to an apartment building, residential houses, a temple, cemetery, corn field, and flower shop - all the same zoning because they are all really small, AFAIK. This is all within 100m radius.  I would use one landuse polygon for the apartment complex, one for the metal stamper, one for the corn field, one for the residential house and its yard, one for the flower shop, etc - like tagging a school grounds or a park. The building(s) sit in the landuse. 

Not being able to assign a suitable landuse to the land under a tax office, a fire station, a community center, a city hall branch, etc is a real hinderance, where civic buildings are everywhere, especially compared to their absence in suburban America (our fire station is the only one within a 2km radius of my US residence; I can easily find 4 or 5 here - they are just so much more prevalent. 

Javbw. 
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