Mapping gates with access tag for villages in Bangkok

[julcnx]

@nitinatsangsit

According to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag … ghbourhood, both can coexist. The place=neighbourhood tag can be added to the landuse area, or it can be mapped as a new node at their center for routing purposes.

I completely agree that the best setup for renderers and routers is to have both:

1. a landuse area to denote the boundaries
2. a node with place=neighbourhood to mark the community’s center and its attributes.

This is consistent with how provinces/districts/towns/villages are tagged.

Alternatively, these are acceptable intermediate solutions currently in use:
a. only a node with place=neighborhood when the boundaries are not known
b. only an area with landuse=residential + place=neighborhood when the center is not known

A landuse=residential area without a place tag should not be recommended as it will lead to confusion: is this a village, a suburb, or a random group of buildings… ?
Adding the extra tag place=neighbourhood removes the confusion and the tag can be easily extracted with other attributes (name, operator) when adding later a node at the “center”.

@nitinatsangsit

By the way, this is an international issue that should be brought to the international OSM community. Because there is the residential=* tag in addition to the landuse=residential tag, but no suitable value for a housing estate (only apartment complex is documented), I think that proposing for new tag specifically for a housing estate should be the solution.

I have asked the global community site for their expertise on this topic:
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/tagging-solution-for-gated-housing-estates/2575

Though, I wouldn’t put too much hope on new tag proposals as these are difficult to get approved.