I do use these from time to time. My usual use cases are:
- Small named estates of social housing. These are common throughout Greater London and the name is usually shown on boards around the perimeter of each estate. Even for ones without such boards there is often good evidence for the name (for instance Municpal Dreams' blog on social housing often uses them). Conceivably these could also be tagged place=neighbourhood, but I think that may be misleading as they will usually be described as XXX Estate, YYY Suburb. - Student Villages. Gated sets of apartment blocks marketed to students only. Although a fairly recent innovation in the UK, they often represent a significant, and historically interesting development. These I also tag residential=student_village. There are at least 5 within a mile of here. - Very well defined, named residential areas too small to be a suburb. A pretty unusual occurrence because unlike the two cases above boundaries are often subjective. In many cases these will be discrete housing developments (private or social) which retain an identity. Often the name will be a local_name, such as Sterling Homes Estate, or the Wimpy Estate. A good example would be the 'Bomber Estate' in Maidenhead <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/24992892>. Again I tend to avoid neighbourhood because what defines these places is often just commonality of building types and time of the development. - Retail Parks & Shopping Centres. - Industrial Estates & Business Parks. - Farm names on landuse=farmyard. I much prefer this to place=farm. I also often exclude the similarly named original farm house as these are increasingly not part of the farm itself. Even if the owner of the farm lives in the house it is unusual for them to farm themselves. Other uses include: - Area with both landuse and a place tag. Most often villages, but some suburbs of Milton Keynes have been mapped that way. MK is unusual in that the grid and area names are well-defined. - Field names (a few examples to the W of MK). One of these <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/232551091> applies to a former field which is now residential. Wrong in my view. (I really like the idea of capturing current or former field names in OSM, but I dont think this is the right way to do it). - Individual residential buildings. E.g., a hall of residence <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/297281678> in London. Sometimes unavoidable. So to take the examples to hand: - The two Hurlingham elements may represent real local distinctions. - Retail areas. Many of these names will be in use although probably in a) local planning documents; b) commercial estate agents and c) retail professionals. Names used by locals may different and harder to establish as accepted usage. In these cases it may be that the name is better placed in an alternative name tag, showing that the name is in use but only within specific communities or use cases. Perhaps someone from Geolytix could provide input on this subject as they have the relevant expertise. Alternatively diligent searching in the local press and planning documents may establish that the usage is current. In short: in many cases names on landuse are a very convenient way of ensuring a name used for a location is available with OSM without having to precisely define it with other tags. In some cases the boundaries are very well defined and the area is also defined with other tags such as place=*. Jerry On 17 January 2017 at 13:33, Andrew Hain <andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > A recent changeset in southwest London > [https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43807789] added names to > landuse=residential and landuse=commercial polygons. The mapper has not > responded to the changeset comment that I left some weeks ago. The names > themselves read more like descriptions to me as a local and they were added > to the existing polygons, which are somewhat arbitrary (you could micromap > with a polygon for each block omitting all roads). These names appear on > OSM-carto in italics. > > What is a general view on when it makes sense to add a name to a landuse > polygon? > > -- > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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