[Talk-GB] City centre landuse tagging

[Edward Catmur]

There's landuse = mixed, but that feels like a cop out - there's no truly
mixed landuse within the planning system, it's always segregated vertically
typically with flats above offices above retail.

Overlapping land use polygons seems to work fine in practice - many towns
and villages have a larger residential poly and then a smaller overlapping
retail poly along the High Street or parade.

My feeling is that people tend to map landuse to fill in gaps on the map,
and since cities have been pretty busy from the start there's not been much
impetus to paint them. If you want to sort that out then I'd draw landuse
on the scale of a city block, with overlaps and level tags.

On Fri, 1 May 2020, 12:38 Warin, <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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