[Tagging] place=neighbourhood vs landuse=residential

[Evan Carroll]

>
> To use landuse=residential area to map, say, a neighbourhood, which
> encapsulates the landuses mentioned above, is wrong.
> It should be used just to map where people live. They don't live in
> schools & parks.
>

That's not true. landuse=residential doesn't mean "house". It means the
land serves residential use, as compared to an industrial use, or a
commercial use.

> An area of land having predominantly residential buildings such as houses
or apartment buildings.

Predominantly, doesn't mean exclusively. Schools and parks are fine for
landuse residential. Moreover, _some_ commercial use is even fine for
landuse=residential (though I would never do it). The wikipage on
landuse=residential explicitly allows it, "This is the mapper's decision.
If you want to make a hole for another landuse inside a residential area,
you can use a multipolygon relation."

Wikipedia has a page on "Residential Area" which I map to our own
landuse=residential, it says

> Curving streets, greenbelt parks, neighborhood pools, and community entry
monumentation appeared.

That doesn't mean the area stopped being residential when those things
emerged. That's why I made the post here anyway. The idea that one of them
includes holes for something arbitrary like pools, parks, and schools isn't
a good idea imho. But at least you're trying to create a distinction. I
don't think that exists in OSM, but at least if we can create it and
document it the tags will be different.

In practice they're the same. And let's assume we did create that
distinction. How do you want that to work? If a landuse=residential has no
parks, schools, or pools inside it do you want it to have an overlapping
polygon that conveys the same information as a neighborhood? Do you want
people to have to query for both of these to make use of OSM?

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