[Talk-us] Fresno castradal imports

[Ian Dees]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > If parcel data is important to disaster response, I would expect the
> >> > responder to go get the most up to date data from the source, not use
> >> > stale
> >> > data that was imported into OSM (potentially) some years ago
> >>
> >> Doesn't Haiti and Fukushima render this argument irrelevant?
> >
> >
> > There's two separate issues here. What Frederik and others point out is
> that
> > most administrative boundary data has no place in OSM, for the (valid)
> > reasons given.
>
> So why even bother having a landuse=* tag?


I'm pretty sure it's because we want to make the osm.org mapnik layer
different colors...

Seriously though I think there is a case for separating between what looks
like commercial, industrial, and residential areas.
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