OpenGeofiction
Hello all,
I wanted to get some people’s input on how I should go about tagging land use for Patriot City.
I have noticed that everyone seems to have a different approach when it comes to tagging landuse. For example, Luciano has very little tagging in his large city, Villa Constitucion. Whereas Leowezy tags a decent amount in his city of Ro.
Yuanls tags even more elaborately in his smaller city of Ellmouth.
My question is, how elaborate should I go when it comes to area tagging. For example, if I tag an entire neighborhood residential, there may be businesses in that area, and vice-versa for the downtown. I would also like to maintain a certain amount of uniformity with my tagging throughout the city.
Should I just tag the city center and key focal points as commercial and the rest of the city residential? Or go all the way down to the parcel level? (could take years)
Just wanted to get your input. Thank you!
Discussion
Comment from wangi on 26 May 2016 at 23:32
You tag for the predominant land use, often aesthetic consideration might result in you using multipolygons for the land use - be that major roads, major retail etc. But everyday shops, small parks and the like within the residential area are fine. http://www.opengeofiction.net/#map=14/20.7061/86.7066
Comment from Sarepava on 26 May 2016 at 23:56
Very intricate landuse can be a pointless exercise, as the building often covers the area and the landuse colour is hardly visible. I tend to use a background of residential and add the main landuse block by block if I do it at all (mostly in Känton). It’s more of value for grass, garden, school, construction, industrial and railway land than anything else. I would like a ‘heritage’ or ‘archaeological’ laduse tag too.
Comment from Luciano on 27 May 2016 at 00:09
In general, I believe landuse tagging should be close to 100% coverage. Villa Constitución has very little tagging because it most definitely incomplete (I would say my current state of “completeness” in VC is about 30%). Perhaps a better indication of my long-term landuse tagging practices could be found in a small city like La Huerta, which is about 70% complete.
That said, if you’re planning for building-level detail, as Sarepava says, landuse tagging becomes less meaningful in built-up areas. So, for example in Rewk Mahhal I doubt I will ever fully tag landuse, since my long-term intention is to map every building in the city.
Comment from Thunderbird on 27 May 2016 at 02:44
That makes sense. Thanks for the help! I don’t think I’ll ever be able to map every building in the city, but I sure could try to get every building in the city center. I think tagging landuse is a big step in making an area seem “complete”
Comment from Myrcia on 27 May 2016 at 10:20
Here’s an example of how I use landuse tagging.
http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/56.34898/19.24526 http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/56.33657/19.26863
I use landuse=residential to designate land that has been built on. I think it creates more realistic neighbourhoods with rough edges than blanket coverage. I don’t use the retail or commercial tags as I dislike the bright, pink background in my city centres. I do, however, use industrial and railway to mark out industrial areas.
Comment from Thunderbird on 27 May 2016 at 15:27
Wow, that looks amazing! I’ll have to think about this carefully.
Comment from tparigo on 27 May 2016 at 15:44
I do more or less the same as @Myrcia. I only use the commercial tag for suburban shopping malls.
Comment from histor on 27 May 2016 at 18:15
“Landuse” is possible only inside of the street-blocks. Therefore the tag is shown only inside the street-grid - never as area for the whole town or a suburb. Significant public bouilding are shown as single units. [http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/-13.47469/39.62810]
In a second step then can be mapped the individual building with the landuse-tag as background - see [http://opengeofiction.net/#map=17/-13.49879/39.64498]