All:
I noticed activity in Mumbai recently by Arun Ganesh (PlaneMad) where a
lot of "landuse:brownfield" areas are being traced around various
villages, koliwadas, wadis, slums and mixed-use and industrial settlements.
I know there was some earlier discussion of how to tag so-called "slums"
but "brownfield" is certainly not appropriate, see the tag which is
"land scheduled for new development"
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dbrownfield
It seems that this tag is being used indiscriminately across any cluster
in Mumbai which appear dense, this covers a wide spectrum of settlements
that all look the same from a satellite image.
While I am always happy to see more people helping map Mumbai -- there
are only a handful of us -- I'm opposed in principle to tagging dense
areas inhabited by 60% of the population as "brownfield".
Best,
S.K.
--
Shekhar Krishnan
58/58A, Anand Bhavan
201, T.H. Kataria Marg (Lady Hardinge Road)
Matunga (West), Mumbai 400016, India
http://heptanesia.net
http://web.mit.edu/shekhar
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