Very interesting... Thanks all for your help, as always!
Pete On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like to explain it in terms of land usage, people reside here on the > land in some way, therefore landuse=residential that is how it works > best in my experience. Fits fully within local mapping partners and > people and is well understood HOT/OSM usage. It also works well for > revisions in the future. It is the most general > people-reside-on-the-land tagging and can be refined with more detail > and specificity in the future without being incorrect now or losing > any of the history of the original object. > > Cheers, > Blake > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Russell Deffner > <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> wrote: > > Ah, but actual village/place boundaries can't really be determined via > imagery; so we 'traditionally' mark areas that look residential/lived in > with landuse=residential and handle any place boundaries with import, etc. > > =Russ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] > > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 4:54 PM > > To: hot@openstreetmap.org > > Subject: Re: [HOT] Quick question on village mapping > > > > On 10/28/2015 2:53 AM, Pete Masters wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> If you are adding field data to an existing shape > >> (landuse=residential), would you tag the shape as place=village / > >> name=whatever or would you add a node and tag the node. > >> > >> I've generally done the latter, but am seeing quite a few villages in > >> Chad that conform to the former. > > > > landuse is not for mapping places, but land usage. If you want to show > > the extents of a village, use a place polygon. If the extents of the two > > are the same, you could put them both on the same object. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > HOT mailing list > > HOT@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > HOT mailing list > > HOT@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- *Pete Masters* Missing Maps Project Coordinator +44 7921 781 518 missingmaps.org <http://www.missingmaps.org/> *@pedrito1414* <https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps> *@theMissingMaps* <https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps> *facebook.com/MissingMapsProject* <https://www.facebook.com/MissingMapsProject>
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