[Tagging] place=neighbourhood vs landuse=residential

[Andrew Welch]

To add to this, you can also do a boundary relation with boundary=place 
to map the area if it's clearly defined as well.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:boundary
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:boundary

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Thanks,
Andrew Welch
mail at andrewwelch.net

On 08/05/2025 9:46 am, Dave F via Tagging wrote:
> If a data consumer wishes to calculate total residential areas, 
> including parks, cemeteries or schools within the areas will return 
> greater inaccurate data.
> 
> Removing parks, cemeteries or schools from within residential areas 
> increases the accuracy of the OSM database.
> 
> The place tag is predominately mapped as a node.
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/place
> 
> The name of a place applies to all landuses in that area, not just 
> residential.
> 
> Parks, cemeteries & schools are not "areas of land having predominantly 
> residential buildings such as houses or apartment buildings"
> 
> DaveF
> 
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