Proposal:Economic Zoned Places

Economic Zone Places
Proposal status:	Draft (under way)
Proposed by:	SherbetS
Tagging:	place=* Data item
Applies to:
Definition:	Place tags used to describe named, unpopulated places, that are home to businesses (ex: shopping strip, industrial park, office park)
Statistics:
Rendered as:	free text
Draft started:	2023-03-16

Proposal

Across the planet, there are named office parks, industrial parks, and shopping centers. Presently, these objects are represented by landuse=commercial, landuse=retail, and landuse=industrial. This page proposes that we replace this scheme with the new tags, place=commercial, place=industrial, and place=retail.

These tags should be used as listed:

Rationale

In the current day, mappers use the tags landuse=commercial, landuse=retail, and landuse=industrial in combination with a name tag to describe named areas that house the corresponding economic activity. The problem with this scheme is that landuse=* is a very flexible and ambiguous field that in most cases isn’t really useful for much more than a method to paint the map. You can’t easily query for this data, because landuse is so ambiguous in meaning, an unnamed landuse area could represent a multitude of different things, and a named landuse could also represent an individual business or store.

If you represent named economic zones with unique tagging, it becomes much easier to figure out what objects on the database represent these objects.

The replacement tags proposed are place=commercial, place=retail, and place=industrial. The place=* key is a much better fit for named economic areas, because it is more conductive to descriptive tags, and it can be represented as a node for areas without authoritative boundaries, and as an area for areas that do have authoritative boundaries.

Tagging

Commmercial

For commercially zoned areas, such as office parks or commercial centers, use the tag place=commercial on a node at the general center of the commercial area, or on the main building of the area.

Industrial

For industrially zoned areas, where several factories/warehouses/other industrial facilities are all present in a named area, use the tag place=industrial.

Retail

Retail Area

For named shopping centers, where one or several buildings fall under the named area, use the tag place=retail.

Comments

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