Proposal:Additional place values
| Additional place values | |
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| Proposal status: | Draft (under way) |
| Proposed by: | dieterdreist |
| Tagging: | place=commercial_area, place=industrial_area, place=research_area, place=government_district |
| Applies to: |  
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| Definition: | new tags for named built-up areas without significant population (not suitable for neighbourhood, quarter or suburb) |
| Statistics: |
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| Draft started: | 2023-07-15 |
Proposal
Rationale
While we have established tags for named areas within settlements (i.e. settlement parts), namely place=suburb, place=quarter, place=neighbourhood, it was pointed out that these names refer to places where people live. An industrial area (e.g. an industrial park) without relatively significant population could not be called a "neighbourhood". Today, these are sometimes mapped with landuse-objects, but the problem is that this kind of mapping prevents mapping different landuse in the area (because overlapping landuses are usually rejected), and it also creates ambiguity because it is not clear which kind of "landuse"-object it is (do people this consider an "industrial area" in the place sense like in industrial park, or is it just an area which happens to have a name tag and a landuse=industrial tag on the same object, but nobody would consider it it's own industrial area.
Tagging
place=commercial_area
A place that has a common name which is considered related to commercial activity like offices, light industry, retail activity E.g. business parks, retail parks, office parks
place=industrial_area
A place that is considered an industrial area (often signposted) with a commonly used name. It can consist of several different users, usually the majority is "heavy industry".
place=research_area
Areas that are commonly seen as research related settlement parts, with a commonly used name, in particular with several different users. E.g. technology parks, science parks, innovation parks, etc.
place=government_district
A part of a settlement set aside for the government and having a commonly used name referring to it.
Features/Pages affected
- place=*
Comments
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