[OSM-newbies] Abutters / Landuse

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

The abutters tag was one of the original map Features tags long before ways
or areas were supported. I still add them to all highway ways (out of habit)
but never to anything else. Its still a useful tag to add to ways because it
means you can tell a lot about the surrounding area without having to look
in the data for area information.

Cheers

Andy

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>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Williams
>Sent: 23 July 2008 3:15 PM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-newbies] Abutters / Landuse
>
>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?
>
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>Andrew Williams / Nik_Doof
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