[Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:36 PM Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> On 9/22/2020 9:26 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >         The extra hamlet nodes are import remainders that haven't yet
> been
> >     converted to landuse areas.   The general landuse zones for that area
> >     have been identified, but do not exactly correspond to the named
> >     subdivisions.   As I get a chance to survey, I divide the landuse
> into
> >     subdivisions and convert the node to a named area for the
> subdivision.
> >
> >
> > Please don't expand these as landuse, please expand them as
> > place=neighborhood instead.  Landuse polygons should be congruent to the
> > actual land use.
>
> That's a good point: the subdivisions often contain one or more landuse
> basins, clusters of trees, etc.   I've been thinking of them as one big
> blob, but it seem correct on a more micromap level to mark them as
> place=, and identify the smaller landuse areas (which are sometimes all
> residential).
>

Exactly.  My rule of thumb is if you're thinking about putting a name on
it, and it's not a shopping center, apartment complex or similar large but
contiguous landuse, then landuse=* probably isn't what your polygon should
be.
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