[Talk-GB] What is a residential area?

[Dave F]

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?


Specifically for the iD editor: I've no idea. The guy responsible for it 
has some strange tagging schema notions. It's why I don't use it.

But most editors will make decisions that an object can only have one 
'primary' tag. In this instance leisure & landuse don't mix, which is 
why I said they needed to be mapped separately.


>
> Should I be creating a duplicate way as a "Garden" on the same nodes?
if garden extends to the extent of the landuse area, then you can, but 
not it's not essential.

One place you shouldn't attach polygons using the same nodes is to 
'highway' ways. They represent an infinitesimally thin centre line with 
no road width implied. In this instance, residential areas should only 
be mapped to the boundary of the properties.

>
> 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.

See above