[OSM-newbies] Advice: Do I use "unclassified" downtown streets?

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com> wrote:
> Randy and everyone.
>
>         Thanks.
>         Rethinking it, I read some more in the wiki and discovered that I
> could use "abutters" [ ... ]

Abutters has fallen out of favor and landuse areas are preferred.  As
described in [1] "falling out of favor" suggests the question "out of
favor with who?" and "but what if I really want to use the older tag?"
 That's cool.

Particularly where things get "interesting" I prefer to tag the
verifiable details, rather than generalizations like landuse.  So I'll
add the row of residential, light industrial, commercial, residential,
school, residential, church, drive-in theatre along one stretch of
road, rather than look for the perfect tag for
mixed-use-plus-entertainment.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features