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

[Charlotte Wolter]

Richard,

         Thanks for the reply.
         It would be interesting to know why "abutters" has fallen 
out of favor, because it seems like a good solution. Is there a 
cartographic reason?  Is it difficult to capture in a map, as opposed 
to in a database?
         For the area I am working, "abutters" may be a better 
solution. There are lots of secondary and tertiary roads through 
residential areas. In LA, with so many drivers trying to get some 
place, some residential steets have become widened to the point of 
being secondary roads. Also, LA is a town of boulevards. Originally 
meant to be more decorative than transportive, some have become main 
trunks to get around town. So, today they have the physical 
characteristics of a primary or secondary road, and carry traffic to 
match, they often pass through exclusively (and exlusive) residential 
neighborhoods.

Charlotte Wolter


At 05:37 PM 10/20/2009, you wrote:
>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
>
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