[OSM-talk] Residential areas

[Chris Morley]

Etienne wrote:

> Does the following proposal satisfy all the requirements:
> 1) Preserve the current rendering behaviour of highway=residential (but 
> mark it as deprecated)
> 2) Use highway=unclassified, residential=yes to mark up roads with 
> houses along them
> 3) Use landuse=residential to demarcate the residential areas
> 4) Do not overlap areas that use the landuse tag unless they really do 
> overlap and are tagged as different layers.
> 
If you are going to introduce a new key "residential" you might as well 
allow it to have values left and right (based on the segment direction) 
to handle the streets with houses on one side only. (I look forward to 
seeing how Osmarender would deal with it.)

Keeping both abutters and landuse might have some advantages. I take 
landuse to be more precise, whereas abutters are to give a feel for the 
area. You can map with abutters from the road, but you need to get round 
the back or have a high resolution arial photograph to properly 
delineate landuse in villages set in farmland.

Chris