[OSM-talk-ie] Landuse

[Colm Moore]

Hi,
Caution! Moan ahead! :)

There has been talk of adopting a project like mapping all schools. I do think it is worthy.
Could I suggest an alternative in landuse, in particular landuse=residential? We map lots of roads, forests and farmland, but not so mush residential usage.
As it stands, there are large gaps in most of the cities, in particular city centres, although very little of Cork (residential) has been done at all. I accept that in city centres / other older areas it can be difficult to separate terraced houses from terraced mixed-use areas, without local knowledge.
Separately, I think some users might be being too coarse in the application of landuse=residential and enclosing an entire village in one area or a middling-to-large sized town in two. I think it would be more useful to implement on a neighbourhood (in older areas) or housing estate level (in newer areas). I think it would make maintenance easier, especially if an housing estate has a name as a whole, that isn't necessarily reflected in the street or townland names, e,g, in Whitehall in Dublin, the combination of Walnut Rise, Walnut Lawn, Walnut Avenue, Walnut Park, Walnut Court are, for some reason, known as Courtlands (Estate). https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/132713513
For example, in Malahide, there are about 25 streets with the name Seabury XXXX (and a few called Lissadell XXXX) and the area is known as Seabury. The origin of the name is the adjacent, but separate, townland of Seatown. The neighbouring areas of Yellow Walls and Swords Road are enclosed in the same landuse=residential area, although at points there are areas within areas, which I think can only make maintenance difficult. In a town of 14,000, two landuse=residential areas cover 90-95% of the population, while immediately next to it there are several areas used to cover 3-5 house each.
Any thoughts?
Thank you

Colm

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