[Talk-us] Why?

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Wed Mar 4 23:52:50 UTC 2015


On 3/4/2015 3:38 PM, stevea wrote:
>> landuse in OSM should be the actual landuse, not the legally 
>> permitted / designed landuse (zoning).
>
> I do not disagree (meaning "I agree"), however:  if my quarter-hectare 
> property of low density residential zoning has a house, fences, a 
> garage, lawns, a creek running along the backside of it and so is 
> largely a riparian corridor, a garden and so on, are you saying that 
> it is incorrect for me to have included my parcel in a larger 
> "neighborhood" of landuse=residential (along with my neighbors), even 
> though I don't include all of these specific "micro-mapping" 
> elements?  Where do you draw the lines of where appropriate 
> landuse=residential tagging begin and end?
>
> And again, as large areas (called "neighborhoods" or "quarters" or 
> "districts" in any given local parlance) truly are exclusively 
> residential, I still maintain that drawing an appropriate polygon 
> around them and tagging landuse=residential is correct.  This (again) 
> is NOT the same as saying that they cannot be made MORE correct, 
> rather that such tagging is "a good first step" and not entirely 
> incorrect. 
This is describing the actual landuse, not the legally permitted landuse.

An example of describing the zoning instead of the actual landuse is 
marking areas of the desert with no development as landuse=residential 
because the government has at some point in the past zoned them as 
residential.



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