[OSM-talk] Residential areas

[David Earl]

Andy said:
> Therefore I believe that the abutters tag on highways should
> remain without
> deprecation. However I would agree that we should move away from colouring
> landmass using the abutters tag in osmarender.

If everyone has their own favourite way of applying the area alongside a
street, then every rendering will get a different result depending on where
it is applied. This is useless. (Please don't say "you can change it" - no
you can't here, as results will differ even across one area, and you'd have
to know how it had been mapped before you could change the renderer).

I'd much rather have the rule "landuse is the way to do it" even though I
think that's over the top than to have a free for all which is what keeping
abutters but ignoring it by default amounts to.

David