[OSM-talk] Residential areas

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Friday 03 November 2006 12:25, David Earl wrote:
> The problem is abutters on *segments*, yes?

No. If you've followed the discussion, the problem is with abutters 
themselves. They:

- Are ugly when compared to landuse areas
- Don't currently cater for different uses on each side of a way
- Don't give much detail for handy uses, e.g. it's a residential road so it's 
best to avoid it if possible in routing software, or it has great big 
warehouses on the right so look out for them, etc.

The consensus, so far as I can tell, is to deprecate abutters somehow*, move 
towards using landuse areas for shading on maps and keep in mind handy uses 
for the stuff on either side of a road when working on Andy's new tagging 
schema.

Regards,
Tom

* Whether with Etienne's suggestion of highway=unclassified,residential=yes 
leaving abutters in place for highway=residential, or by simply removing 
abutters from osmarender altogether.

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