[Tagging] place=neighbourhood vs landuse=residential

[Justin Tracey]

On 5/7/25 11:27, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 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.
> 

This isn't correct. See, e.g., landuse=apartments, a subtag of 
landuse=residential indicating an apartment complex, of which, well over 
100,000 have names tagged.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:residential%3Dapartments
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/residential=apartments#combinations

Neighborhoods and residential areas aren't the same thing, and shouldn't 
be treated as equivalent. E.g., in my city, there is a designated 
historic neighborhood with a name and explicit boundaries, spanning a 
few city blocks, and two residential areas with their own names inside 
it (an apartment complex with two high-rises, and a named stretch of 
mid-rises).

  - Justin