Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed features: historic center

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/6/16 Richard Mann : > "City Centre" or "Town Centre" would generally refer to the commercial > centre (or CBD). I have no doubt that commercial activities concentrate in these zones, but I would see it quite sadly to have the centres reduced to this commercial activity in OSM, as they are cen

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed features: historic center

2009-06-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/6/16 Richard Mann : > CBD is what the geographers call it. according to wikipedia in north-america it's called "downtown" and urban planners use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity_centre (CAD central activities district) as well. I didn't know about the latter before but I find it much bet

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed features: historic center

2009-06-16 Thread Richard Mann
CBD is what the geographers call it. I think it can cover the mixed-use bit around the central core as well, though there is a term "Outer Business District" for the mixed-use bit (mixed residential and workshops) when that needs to be distinguished. Alas we've often bull-dozed those areas in the U

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed features: historic center

2009-06-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/6/15 Richard Mann : > I think the English "word" for it is "Central Business District". Or less > formally "City Centre" or "Town Centre". When I searched for the right term a also stubled open Central Business District but I would never apply it to a center, as I don't care much about Busine

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed features: historic center

2009-06-15 Thread Richard Mann
I think the English "word" for it is "Central Business District". Or less formally "City Centre" or "Town Centre". Richard On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 7:28 PM, David Paleino wrote: > Hello, > I'd like to retrigger discussion about a Proposed feature, namely > landuse=something (you'll understand re

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed features: historic center

2009-06-15 Thread David Paleino
Ciao Martin, no need to CC me, thank you :) On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:40:55 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2009/6/14 David Paleino : > > [..] > > > > 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Proposed features: historic center

2009-06-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/6/14 David Paleino : > 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/Hist

[OSM-talk] Proposed features: historic center

2009-06-14 Thread David Paleino
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