[Tagging] Lyft and nameless sectioning in OSM

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Oct 11, 2022, 20:34 by me at evancarroll.com:

> these polygons don't add any value: they're not describing  what things are, and they're frequently incorrect
>
You mentioned https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1101484647

Why it is supposed to be wrong? Are there additional objects not mapped in OSM there?
Because what I see seems self-consistent.

> Houston doesn't have zoning: stating what something is today as if it was a zone is problematic anywhere
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landuse=retail is not for legal zoning. For example farmland zoned for retail 
is not landuse=retail.

landuse=retail is exactly for area used right now predominantly for retail

and yes, many landuse=retail/residential/commercial/railway areas are not named

> If we know what every individual building is (which is the ideal), what information is conveyed by telling me that 80% or some unquantified inexplicit percentage of buildings in a grouping are of type Industrial?
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Even if it is useless, this does not make this edits bad.

Can you explain why you think this specific object is invalid?
As far as I see it matches how landuse=retail is supposed to be used.
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