Hi all, I’ve been mapping housing estates in Carrigaline by creating them as separate residential areas (landuse=residential), with name=Westwood or whatever. But reading the residential landuse documentation, it seems the convention is to leave the landuse unnamed and put names on Neighbourhoods instead. Is there a convention for housing estates in Ireland? The word “neighbourhood” has a slightly different connotation for me than housing estate, but it’s certainly close enough if that’s the standard.
Actually I have tended to use a name tag with a with a residential area to name housing estates. In fact I added two more today!
I would agree with you that a ‘neighbourhood’ is often a vaguer more colloquial entity, without a formal administrative or legal boundary - another word for it would be a ‘locality’ or ‘district’. Whereas housing estates are often quite sharply defined plots of land, delineated by fences, hedges, or road boundaries (and often the dwellings share common postal address elements).
However this is not something I have super-strong feelings on…