[Tagging] place=neighbourhood vs landuse=residential

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 8 May 2025, at 22:59, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The real North America is messy and inconsistent. Europe has been urbanized and enclosed for a couple of thousand years longer than the US and has had a lot more time to tidy up the messes in the field - making it much easier to keep them neat on the map. 


while we may have had more time to “tidy up”, we also had more time and opportunities to accumulate legacy exceptions, some reforms may have been introducing additional structure (in addition to what is there) rather then simplifying things by reducing complexity. A longer history typically doesn’t lead to a simpler present situation.