[OSM-talk] landuse=urban

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Saturday 10 February 2007 12:18:28 Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> What would be useful I feel is a generic tag for any urban area, so that
> urban and countryside areas can easily be distinguished. landuse=urban
> seems a good choice. This would make it easy, for example, to draw an urban
> area based on the Landsat or Yahoo imagery. Any comments on this?

Just curious, what do we lack with landuse=residential/retail/industrial/etc? 
If people use those then surely entire urban areas are clearly marked off? If 
there are urban areas that don't fit into those categories then we could 
expand the list.

Regards,
Tom

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