[Tagging] Lyft and nameless sectioning in OSM

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 01:45 2022-10-13, Martin Koppenhoefer đã viết:
> Often names refer to the whole part of the settlement, but there are 
> also named contiguos, single use developments where adding the name to 
> the landuse seems to "work" (not generally, only in some instances).

The latter is especially prevalent in the U.S., in areas developed since 
the 1950s or so. Master-planned communities, apartment complexes, and 
strip malls figure very large in the American landscape. Their names and 
extents are both objective and verifiable on the ground and not just a 
cartographic convenience.

Going back to the original topic about Houston, the northwestern corner 
of the metropolitan area has already been blanketed in named landuse 
areas (coincidentally) aligned to a combination of property lines and 
easements. The relatively few unnamed landuse areas are compact and 
logical, apart from the gas station conflation mentioned earlier.

This style of mapping helps users orient themselves on any map that 
labels the landuse areas and adds value where the likes of Google 
regularly get it wrong by copying verbatim from planning maps. [1][2] As 
far as I know, Lyft has been careful not to disturb any named landuse 
areas or map coarse landuse areas that are redundant to them.

[1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2013-June/011131.html
[2] 
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-neighborhood-names.html

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