[Tagging] place=neighbourhood vs landuse=residential
Illia Marchenko
illiamarchenko92 at gmail.com
Wed May 7 15:11:22 UTC 2025
Strictly speaking, "land use" and "named places" is orthogonal entities.
Don't mix them. Just use node with place=* and name=* and area with
landuse=* but without any name=*.
Regards,
Illia.
Evan Carroll <me at evancarroll.com>:
> There are two major tags that seem to be semantically the same,
>
> name=foo; place=neighbourhood
> name=foo; landuse=residential
>
> What I don't want is this comment to remain (which is specific to the way
> use case):
> https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/84020/residential-or-neighbourhood
>
> > More particularly, both can be used together without contradicting each
> other.
>
> My proposal would be to narrow the use case.
>
> > If the borders can be sufficiently known use the following: name=foo;
> landuse=residential. If the borders can not be sufficiently known to create
> an area, use a node with "name=foo; place=neighbourhood".
> **place=neighbourhood** should never be used on an area.**
>
> Any ideas on firming this up?
>
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