[OSM-talk-ie] Landuse

[Rory McCann]

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Hi Colm,

Totally agree.

Often there are several housing estates together that have the same
name ("Blah Close", "Blah Wood", etc), and that's a good example of
needing a "Blah" landuse=residential area.

Conversely, I've seen rough landuse=residental drawn over a few houses
which are strung out in rural ireland. Most of the area inside the
area is fields, not residential. That's not accurate. Map the
individual houses, but you don't need a residential landuse for a few
houses in rural areas.

And not everywhere in OSM needs to be in a "landuse" tag.

Rory

On 05/04/16 22:45, Colm Moore wrote:
> 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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