[OSM-talk] landuse=urban

[Jochen Topf]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:18:28PM +0000, 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?

If this landuse=urban is supposed to be a generalization from
landuse=<all the other stuff> and, for instance, meant for drawing at
zoom levels where a whole city is just rendered as one irregular grey
blob, I't rather not use "landuse" but a different key, because it *is*
different from all the other landuses, more like a default thing meaning
"if you don't have more detailed information, you can render this area
as urban".

Jochen
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