[Tagging] Lyft and nameless sectioning in OSM

[Clifford Snow]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 12:05 PM Evan Carroll <me at evancarroll.com> wrote:

>
> For all of these cases, when "Zone" isn't established by law I see no
> value. I think this would be a good place to start. But I'm also interested
> in knowing Lyft's motivations behinds these Zones and I assume they're on
> the list or someone can answer for it. If unnamed, this seems like a more
> error-prone way to do Spatial Clustering, and clustering is usually done
> for a reason, which I don't see in the wiki (unless I'm missing something).
>

Houston has hundreds of landuse polygons already.  According to the wiki
[1], landuse describes what area is being used for. It does not say
anywhere that we should map city zones. For example, landuse=farmland
describes an area used for farming where a county landuse zone might
include the buildings on the property, in OSM we usually don't.  Areas with
houses are tagged as landuse-residential. Houston has many of these areas.

[1]  https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Land_use

As Andy suggested, contact the mapper with your concerns. I've have had
good luck dealing with Lyft in the past and appreciate their edits in my
area.

Best,
Clifford

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