[OSM-talk] Proposed features: historic center

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/6/14 David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
> I'd like to retrigger discussion about a Proposed feature, namely
> landuse=something (you'll understand reading the two proposals)
>
>  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/centre_zone
>  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Historic_center
>
> What's your opinion on this?
>
> I agree that moving it from "landuse=historic_center" to something not
> involving history is a good thing, but also "centre_zone" has its own issues
> (basically, the "centre" terminology might not be appropriate in many cases).
>
> Ideas? Comments?

When I wrote the proposal for centre_zone I was also thinking about an
alternative named "core_zone" or "core" but I was not sure if this
attempt to translate German into English would describe to a native
person what I actually meant. LEO (translation-service) proposed
centre_zone for the German Term "Kerngebiet", which is the appropriate
term in German urban planning legislation
(BauNVO=Baunutzungsverordnung).

Martin