[OSM-newbies] Abutters / Landuse

[Eric Ladner]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Andrew Williams <andy at tensixtyone.com> wrote:
> Just got a small question about abutters and landuse. From the
> explanation of abutters[1] I gather your only supposed to use the tag
> if you can't create a landuse area for the roads your travelling down.
> Is this correct?
>
> For example in Widnes[2] we've got Yahoo coverage so we can work out
> landuse from local knowledge and the imagery, so should I be using
> abutters or landuse areas?

If you have aerial images, you can work out the land use.

My understanding of abutters is if you're driving through an
unfamiliar area mapping and there's residential on the street, you put
"abutters=residential" because you don't know the extent of how far
back the residential area goes; you can only see what's on the street
you're on.

Aerial images changes that...

-- 
Eric Ladner