[talk-ph] subcategory for landuse=residential

[Michael Collinson]

On 02/10/2012 15:33, maning sambale wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> Im looking for a tag that allows more granularity for residential 
> areas. Particularly for dense/slum/urban poor areas.
>
> In the traditional landuse planning speak, there are subclasses like 
> low density to high density residential.
>
> Any suggestion for the appropriate osm tag?
>
Field or values?  If field, my personal preference is to re-use the 
value of the main tag. I.e. natural=beach, beach=sand so 
landuse=residential, residential=*. Drawbacks: 1) clutters main tag 
space, 2) may clash with existing tags, say landuse=military, miltary= 
... but then that also may be appropriate. I guess the alternative would 
be landuse:subtype or some such, I'll keep my eye open in european 
countries where zoning laws are very strict.

Mike