[Talk-GB] What is a residential area?

[seirra blake]

the way I see it, what osm is for... is whatever people want to use it 
for really. to me, osm is great because you can achieve a detail like no 
other, if you see a problem, you can either fix it there and then, or 
mark it for fixing later a lot better than say for example google where 
they mostly just care about POI information and housing developments 
take forever to appear. I also find osm great for pedestrian routing, 
when I find a shortcut not on the map? I can add it, and in an hour it's 
there for me, and everyone else too, that's pretty powerful, in a way. 
but that's just me, I know people that love using it for biking, I see a 
lot of cool infographics/custom maps, I see people using it for hiking, 
using it for driving... osm is a powerful map, but it owes this to the 
strong community behind it.

you, and pretty much everyone else, would look at it and say "that's a 
house in a garden". so until someone with better knowledge proves 
otherwise... it's a house in a garden. the nice thing about osm is that 
if you make a mistake tagging it, someone in the future can fix it for 
you. sure it might not be any time soon... but in that case it's 
probably not hurting anyone, either, if no one felt the motivation to fix it

On 5/7/19 3:03 PM, Martin Wynne wrote:
> On 07/05/2019 14:38, David Woolley wrote:
>>
>> However, I wouldn't say the primary purpose of the area you were 
>> asking about is to be a garden; I would say it is somewhere to 
>> reside, and the gardens form a subsidiary part of it, and should be 
>> represented with nested areas.
>
> Thanks David.
>
> But is that what OSM is for -- to describe the *purpose* of a thing?
>
> I thought the idea was describe the *physical* object and its 
> location? Physically it is a house built in a garden.
>
> For all we know, it may not be anyone's residence -- it could be being 
> used as offices, say. In that case landuse=residential would be wrong, 
> it should be landuse=commercial. But it's still a house in a garden.
>
> cheers,
>
> Martin.
>
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