I agree with Mateusz.
* landuse=retail,residential,industrial, etc. are not bound to the North
American concept of zoning.
* landuse=retail does correctly not encompass the veterinarian, because
a vet mostly sells services, not goods. It is thus correct that the vet
is in a landuse=commercial area.
I'm not making a statement on whether Lyft's edit are accurate or useful
in general.
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On the matter of usefulness:
If usefulness would need to be proven for any edit, then 99% of my edits
would lack legitimacy.
- I think it is totally fine to map for esthetic reasons, as long as the
editing is correct and adheres to OSM guidelines.
- Also, in many cases, the future use of a data set cannot be foreseen
in the present. Many things that are extremely useful today appeared
completely useless at the time they were
created/invented/studied/discovered.
On 11/10/2022 21:13, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
Oct 11, 2022, 20:34 by m...@evancarroll.com:
these polygons don't add any value: they're not describing what
things are, and they're frequently incorrect
You mentioned https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1101484647
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1101484647>
Why it is supposed to be wrong? Are there additional objects not mapped
in OSM there?
Because what I see seems self-consistent.
Houston doesn't have zoning: stating what something is today as if
it was a zone is problematic anywhere
landuse=retail is not for legal zoning. For example farmland zoned for
retail
is not landuse=retail.
landuse=retail is exactly for area used right now predominantly for retail
and yes, many landuse=retail/residential/commercial/railway areas are
not named
If we know what every individual building is (which is the ideal),
what information is conveyed by telling me that 80% or some
unquantified inexplicit percentage of buildings in a grouping are of
type Industrial?
Even if it is useless, this does not make this edits bad.
Can you explain why you think this specific object is invalid?
As far as I see it matches how landuse=retail is supposed to be used.
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