[OSM-talk-ie] 3. Re: Time to talk about landuse=residential

[Ciarán Staunton]

Thanks Dónal and Tony for your thoughts on this subject, and sorry for not
replying initially.

Whether we go for an objective historical, developer/development led, or
some kind of flux naming for areas is surely an issue that needs constant
conversation of present and future osm community members and contributors.
Where I think we are right now are more basic housekeeping issues. There
are, however, questions of scale. I wonder if either of you think Clontarf
(as it is mapped now) is an acceptable residential landuse?

To move back to the matters more mundane we need to be thinking about using
the latest imagery to get new areas done, and we need to be tidying so that
commercial and industrial areas are not glibly incorporated into the
polygons which simply mean "there are humans here" and signify a town.

In the meantime I would ask everyone reading the list to be very careful
about using admin boundaries, roads, and other linear ways as proxies for
the treatment of a "residential edge" and like Tony has spotted please do
not join their nodes to roads and rivers.

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