[talk-au] Blocks of land - residential housing

[Andrew Harvey]

On 21/09/12 20:41, Leathal wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I was just wondering what the tagging standard is for residential housing in 
> suburbs?
> 
> I can't find anything definitive, and most of the common methods such as 
> landuse=residential is set aside for large scale areas (which is correct IMO).

I ensure the residential area doesn't cross any roads. ie. just the
block. eg.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.062412&lon=151.1523&zoom=18&layers=M

I do this because it is more accurate. The road isn't residential and so
shouldn't be covered by the area.

It is a lot simpler that way, because it is very easy to exclude the
corner shop, which is landuse=retail, or the park on the corner.

Tracing the building, or even just a center point node, you can add the
type of building as apartment, house, cabin etc.

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