[Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

Minh Nguyen minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
Thu Sep 24 07:49:03 UTC 2020


Vào lúc 21:47 2020-09-22, Paul Johnson đã viết:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:56 PM stevea 
> <steveaOSM at softworkers.com 
> <mailto:steveaOSM at softworkers.com>> wrote:
> 
>     If you MUST tag place=neighbourhood (note the u) see if you agree
>     with me that this tag makes most sense in a hierarchy where
>     place=suburb (and perhaps quarter, if applicable, is/are above) also
>     exist(s).  I'm not strictly saying I believe that
>     place=neighbourhood CANNOT exist without place=suburb, but it makes
>     me wrinkle my brow a bit at it not fitting as well as a
>     landuse=residential (multi)polygon might rather generically and
>     innocently (without any hierarchy required) fit in.
> 
> 
> Landuse=residential fits better for the lots within a place, not as a 
> substitute for it.

I've never gotten into mapping individual lots, but I agree that 
landuse=residential is a reasonable tag to use in conjunction with 
place=plot. [1] I don't think that needs to be mutually exclusive of 
mapping the surrounding subdivision as a named landuse=residential area.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dplot

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