Author: Polarbear
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.46pm, Wednesday, 27th January 2016]

While this is probably not the right place for this discussion, I'll try to cover the main issues:

1. How something is rendered in a particular map should not influence tagging decision. We do not tag for the renderer. There are different maps and data user with different styles and requirements.

2. You should not just delete landuse tags just because it covers a large area, thus you are removing information from the database. Instead you should break the landuse up in smaller part, thus refine the data, preferably down to block level. Different blocks might have different landuse, within the same neighbourhood. Thus you should use landuse tags and place tags on different objects, preferably.

3. The label Westown on object http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/381341891 is shown on openstreetmap-carto (used on the main map) larger and on lower zoom levels, is because the object is tagged both a commercial landuse, and a neighbourhood. This map style labels landuses dependent on their size with different font size. In contrast, East Town is just a place node http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3969080178. As [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Neighborhoods%20of%20Milwaukee Wikipedia] suggests that your neighbourhoods have no sharp boundaries, place nodes are probably the best for this purpose and should be used consistently.

4. Wishes how particular objects are rendered on the main map should be discussed here: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto