[Talk-GB] What is a residential area?

[seirra blake]

is there any articles on what does/doesn't get used on particular zoom 
levels? just figure it wouldn't hurt to double check my general 
understanding

On 5/7/19 1:21 PM, Russ Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 12:40, Martin Wynne <martin at templot.com> wrote:
>> I don't know anyone who would say "I see a residential area". Or "I see
>> a plot of land with planning class C3 or C4".
>  From a zoomed-out perspective, landuse= (and natural=) is the main
> thing you see on the map (especially if buildings aren't mapped), so I
> think it's pretty useful from a cartographic point of view. It's not
> just about what you see on the ground, but how you can turn that into
> a useful map when you're looking at a large area.
>
> There are still chunks of the UK which look empty at medium zoom
> levels (e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/50.4437/-4.8581)
> due to lack of landuse mapping.
>