[Tagging] place=neighbourhood vs landuse=residential

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 8 May 2025, at 02:29, Andrew Welch via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> 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.


you can do it, but admittedly it is not very common yet, 10,600 such tags, vs. 1.4 million place on ways. A data consumer can understand whether a place is mapped as a node or as an area or both, so generally it may not be technically required (particularly if we think that place boundaries can overlap and the same area can be part of several places, unlike with administrative boundaries). Sometimes it could make sense to also specify a centre and then a relation would be really useful. 

Here‘s an example for a simple place relation without a node: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5451764#map=14/41.95122/12.39640
someone also grouped all these in a collection ;-)
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