[talk-au] How Do I?

Elizabeth Dodd edodd at billiau.net
Tue Feb 12 07:05:14 GMT 2008


On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Stephen Hope wrote:
> Liz,
>
> There are arguments about this from time to time.  Generally, the
> abutters tags seem to be falling out of favour, though some people
> still like them.
>
> The general consensus seems to be to mark up an area and use landuse=
> tags.  The good part about these is they render as area shading,
> rather than shading along the edge of a line. And you can have
> different things along different parts of a street, or on opposite
> sides, etc.
>
> The bad part is you need to know how big the area is to use them - if
> you are driving along a street, how do you know how far back the
> houses go, and what is behind them? More houses, a farm, industry?
>
> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:landuse for more on
> the landuse tag
>
> Stephen
and the one I forgot isn't on the list


the airport??








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