[Tagging] Lyft and nameless sectioning in OSM

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On 10/11/22 19:45, Minh Nguyen wrote:
> None of this is particularly relevant to Houston, but I don't think
> there's any precedent or mechanism for formally deprecating a broadly
> defined tag in only the places that satisfy certain criteria.

Houston has no zoning (the largest city in the US to not be zoned). Deed 
restrictions are used to get some of the same results accomplished by 
zoning in other cities. Note this applies only to Houston proper, not 
suburbs (Tiki Island, Pleak, and Jersey Village are known by me to be 
zoned, and there are probably others.)

That said, many areas will still qualify as a de facto residential, 
commercial, retail, or industrial area, and so I avoid deleting 
landuse=* unless it is clearly wrong/outdated.

> If, like me, you want to see fewer unnamed landuse areas in your 
> backyard, map more named landuse areas corresponding to retail and 
> residential developments. These areas not only reduce the pressure to
> "fill in" the map visually but also add information about the shape
> of these developments that's often difficult to obtain from other map
> services.

What I'd like to see less of is the use of dubious tag combinations like 
this:

landuse=retail
amenity=fuel
shop=convenience
name=Exxon

or whatever the brand might be. First, the convenience store and fuel 
should be separately tagged; I tag the fuel canopy (or an area near the 
pumps if no canopy)  as being the fuel station, and the building as the 
convenience store (which also gets the address data if  known). 
Convenience stores may be inside a landuse area, but shouldn't be tagged 
on the same way as a landuse area as I understand it.

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