Hi, > I am wondering to which kind of obsessiveness the landuse-tag is > meant to be used. Is the final stage something like a 'landuse'-layer > covering 100% of the earth?
A question that is regularly and at length discussed on talk-de, talk, and the newbies list (google "site:lists.openstreetmap.org landuse"). > Do we cover entire villages with > 'landuse=residential'? We sometimes do that for a start when all we have is a Landsat quality satellite image. This can be refined later to differentiate between various types of landuse inside the village. > What is the need of the 'place'-tag then? The place tag is often attached to a node, not an area. If attached to an area, it would mean the entire village. > Oh, and BTW and another question: Why can't a police-station cover an > entire area, but is restricted to a single node? If you want to map the outline of a police station, tag it "amenity=police" and "building=yes". Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk