I have been routinely mapping groups of say half a dozen huts in West Africa as landuse=residential and its the first time I've seen a minimum number of twenty buildings.
Cheerio John On 2 May 2015 at 16:38, Tom McDonald <tmcd...@gmail.com> wrote: > I encountered a tile with many small (2 or 3 houses) areas in the hills of > Nepal marked as landuse=Residential. It is my understanding that this tag > should be used only for true "Settlements" of 20 or more houses? > > I read somewhere that counting the number of "Residential" areas can be > used as a rough guide to population. This only works if they are all about > same size. > > The validation instructions for my task: #1018 - Nepal Earthquake, 2015, > detailed mapping 2nd pass, states "residential/settlement areas - validate > if all settlements (a cluster of 20 or so houses) are enclosed with > landuse=residential polygon/enclosed way." > > Is it correct for me to remove the landuse tag for these tiny groups of > houses? > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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