[Tagging] place=neighbourhood vs landuse=residential
Greg Troxel
gdt at lexort.com
Wed May 7 15:27:51 UTC 2025
Illia Marchenko <illiamarchenko92 at gmail.com> writes:
> 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=*.
Yes, land use and names are separate concepts.
But there are many cases where both apply to the same polygon.
In OSM, multiple tags on an object are not necessarily related. An
example is a node with both streetlamp and surveillance.
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