[Talk-GB] What is a residential area?

[David Woolley]

On 07/05/2019 12:17, Martin Wynne wrote:
> On 07/05/2019 11:34, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
>> Your OSM example look fine to me - a single property is still where 
>> people reside. Any other details, such as garden, should be mapped 
>> individually within that area.
> 
> Thanks Dave. But in that case, why in the iD editor when I change 
> "Residential Area" to "Garden" does it remove the landuse=residential tag?

To stop you having conflicting main tags.
> 
> Should I be creating a duplicate way as a "Garden" on the same nodes?

If you are going to micromap the garden, it should exclude the house and 
the car parking area, so it won't be using the same nodes.

> 
> Or should I leave it as "Residential Area" and add a leisure=garden tag? 
> When I do that, the OSM standard map doesn't render the garden.

Again you are giving something two different main tags and that will 
confuse most renderers.  On the other hand, you shouldn't be basing your 
tagging on what gets rendered.  (Although I wouldn't advise mapping the 
average city front yard as parking space, or the average but to let 
front yard a recycling area, it would not be be technically wrong to do 
so, even though it would produce an ugly rendering.