<div>Arcade may be better than colonnade, but arcade is definitely in more common usage in the UK for a pedestrian route through a block with shops on both sides, so it will be slightly misleading. However I suppose the position next to a road makes it clear that it's one-sided.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Emilie Laffray <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emilie.laffray@gmail.com">emilie.laffray@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">Richard Mann wrote:<br>> An arcade usually cuts through a block, rather than running alongside<br>> a road. I'd have said colonnade was about right, though they're not<br>> exactly common in the UK (the two level shops at Chester spring to<br>
> mind, but they are probably peculiar to themselves). We do have what<br>> can best be described as concrete awnings, eg in Birmingham, but they<br>> are stricly functional, and probably best described as something like<br>
> covered=yes.<br>><br>> I'd probably go for footway=colonnade<br>><br>> Richard<br></div>Hello,<br><br>I don't think colonnade would fit what we need here. The arcades are<br>always closed on one side and in ancient Greece, the closed side had<br>
shops in it, which is usually not the case with colonnades at all. The<br>example given is pretty good, and it is relatively common in some parts<br>of France. Orleans and Tours would be an other example of what this<br>architecture is all about.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_(architecture)" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_(architecture)</a><br>However, the articles on wikipedia are pretty poor. I suspect that<br>footway=arcade would actually be the best description if I remember<br>
correctly the definition.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Emilie Laffray<br><br></font></blockquote></div><br>