[Tagging] place=neighbourhood vs landuse=residential

[Evan Carroll]

>
> 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).


Not just is it still the same thing, but I would argue you're doing it
wrong if you tag a historic neighborhood as a neighborhood.

The reason why we have multiple pages dedicated to this
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic is because something that's
historic has a value totally aside from the value of things that are
on-the-ground which is the primary guiding concept. If the neighborhood no
longer exists in the form described, it's no longer a neighborhood
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Neighbourhood

If anything it _should_ be,

* historic=neighborhood
* historic=residential; name=whatever

And that coexists well with "landuse=residential; name=whatever" today.
While retaining the difference (that it no longer functions in that way).

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