[OSM-newbies] Secondary vs tertiary roads

[Gregory Williams]

Agreed, but sometimes you don't know the full extent of the area
(perhaps because you haven't surveyed it yet, or low-resolution imagery
in Potlatch), so abutters is the next best compromise.

-----Original Message-----
From: newbies-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:newbies-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andy Allan
Sent: 8 August 2007 09:45
To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Secondary vs tertiary roads

On 8/8/07, Gregory Williams <gregory.williams at purplegeodesoftware.co.uk>
wrote:
> When you need to mark the fact that that a primary / secondary /
> tertiary road leads through a residential area you can add the
attribute
> abutters=residential. I only use highway=residential on roads which
> would otherwise be highway=unclassified if they didn't have housing
> there.

It's best to use landuse=residential around the residential area, in
preference to abutters=residential.

Cheers,
Andy

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