[Talk-GB] Named landuse polygons

[Colin Smale]

Can't think of any justification for name on landuse. The boundary of a
village may be co-linear with the built-up area, so the "place" boundary
may be co-linear with the "landuse=residential",  but they are not the
same object and should not be conflated into a single OSM object from
some (misguided?) principle of saving space in the database or whatever.

//colin 

On 2017-01-17 14:33, Andrew Hain wrote:

> A recent changeset in southwest London
> [https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43807789] added names to landuse=residential and landuse=commercial polygons. The mapper has not responded to the changeset comment that I left some weeks ago. The names themselves read more like descriptions to me as a local and they were added to the existing polygons, which are somewhat arbitrary (you could micromap with a polygon for each block omitting all roads). These names appear on OSM-carto in italics.
> 
> What is a general view on when it makes sense to add a name to a landuse polygon?
> 
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