On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 12:40, Martin Wynne <mar...@templot.com> wrote: > I don't know anyone who would say "I see a residential area". Or "I see > a plot of land with planning class C3 or C4".
From a zoomed-out perspective, landuse= (and natural=) is the main thing you see on the map (especially if buildings aren't mapped), so I think it's pretty useful from a cartographic point of view. It's not just about what you see on the ground, but how you can turn that into a useful map when you're looking at a large area. There are still chunks of the UK which look empty at medium zoom levels (e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/50.4437/-4.8581) due to lack of landuse mapping. -- Russ Garrett r...@garrett.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
