[Talk-GB] City centre landuse tagging

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Fri May 1 11:37:50 UTC 2020


On 1/5/20 9:22 pm, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Meant to include this in my other post, but...I'm noticing that 
> several cities in the UK (Bristol, Bath and Chester are good examples) 
> don't seem to tag the city centre area with an appropriate landuse tag 
> (presumably retail, commercial or residential).


OSM does not (yet) have a way of tagging multiple landuses in the one place.


If OSM did have multiple landuses in the one place, how would you render it?


>
> This is something I've missed over the years... but what is the common 
> practice for tagging city centre areas? Presumably the above three 
> landuses are not used because city centres are typically a mixrure of 
> all three.
>
> What I'm trying to achieve is a 'built-up-area' rendering which covers 
> the whole of the built up area of a town or city. Not looking for 
> administrative boundaries - but the actual physically built-up area.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>
>
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