[OSM-talk] Residential areas

[Etienne]

Tom
I am now tagging streets as highway=unclassified instead of
highway=residential (on the basis that highway=residential is synonymous
with, and just a shortcut equivalent of, highway=unclassified,
abutters=residential).  I then create a way with landuse=residential, to
surround all the residential roads in an area.

I'm still experimenting with making one big area vs. lots of smaller areas.
I think there is a happy medium somewhere.

I think it makes sense not to make a single residential area for a whole
city or town.  It would also be a bit silly to make a residential area for
each individual street.


Currently the best balance for me seems to be to use natural boundaries,
such as main roads, as the edges of residential areas.

If there is a main street with shops along it and then residential streets
behind, I would draw a thin strip tagged with landuse=retail  and then fill
in behind with a non-overlapping area tagged landuse=residential.  So two
landuse areas will abut each other, but not overlap.

If you make a very large area then you might have pockets of retail areas
inside the residential area.  This requires that retail is always rendered
after residential.  But then what if you have a small residential area
within a large retail area?  Pushing the retail area to the back with
layer=-1 would work in this case, and it is a relatively uncommon
occurrence.  But intuitively, I don't think it would be very desirable to
have two areas with different landuse tags overlapping each other.

80n



On 10/31/06, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
>
> Ahoy,
>
> How are people marking up residential areas, now that we seem to be moving
> away from abutters?
>
> Most of St Albans is, of course, residential, with a few areas for retail,
> industry, commerce etc. stuck around it.
>
> Should I just make a whacking great big residential area for the whole
> city,
> then overlay other areas on that?
>
> Or should I make a crazy, winding big area that traces around the other
> areas?
>
> Or should I make quite a few smaller residential areas that are bounded
> arbitrarily so that they aren't too enormous, and fit around other areas.
>
> What are others doing?
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
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