[OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] landuse=construction

[John McKerrell]

Just realised I should have sent this to the main talk list too  
really. Please take a look at the proposed feature below and vote for  
it.

On 2 Nov 2007, at 09:23, John McKerrell wrote:

> I've pushed this proposal through to voting as it's been in RFC for  
> a few months, please register your votes here:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/ 
> Building_site
>
> I'm quite eager to get this approved quickly as we have various  
> places in Liverpool that will need it if we want to have a  
> "complete" map at the end of the Liverpool mapping party, for example:
>
> http://geo.topf.org/comparison/index.html? 
> mt0=googlemap&mt1=mapnik&lon=-2.9880452&lat=53.4037373&z=15
>
> (Note that Google are showing the area with a grey background, but  
> they're missing the bit to the east which began construction more  
> recently.
>
> John
>
> On 4 Oct 2007, at 17:09, Thom Shannon wrote:
>
>> ok, recommendations so far are:
>> landuse=construction
>> landuse=building_site
>> landuse=under_construction
>>
>> do any of these render at the moment?
>>
>> Andy Robinson wrote:
>>> Chris Fleming wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sent: 04 October 2007 4:25 PM
>>>> To: Thom Shannon; Talk GB
>>>> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] landuse=construction
>>>>
>>>> Thom Shannon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There was some discussion here
>>>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/ 
>>>>> Building_site
>>>>> with little consensus
>>>>>
>>>>> Long term major construction sites should be mapped, they do  
>>>>> not fit the
>>>>> definition of brownfield.
>>>>> One example: about 1sq mile of Liverpool has been under  
>>>>> construction for
>>>>> the last couple of years and has at least another year to go.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think we should start using this tag or something similar
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I have been using brownfield for exactly that kind of site.  
>>>> Although
>>>> technically it wouldn't apply to construction projects on green  
>>>> field
>>>> sites. You could start using landuse=building_site and submit a  
>>>> patch to
>>>> render it :) (or talk nicely to someone editing the rules...)
>>>>
>>>> As far as I'm concerned, it's good to tag these area's rather than
>>>> leaving big empty spaces, and brownfield works for me....
>>>>
>>>>
>>> If it's a previously used piece of land then "brownfield" is  
>>> appropriate,
>>> with or without construction activities. If its new construction  
>>> on a
>>> greenfield site then landuse=under_construction works for me.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> Andy Robinson
>>> Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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