[OSM-talk] Residential areas

[Andy Robinson]

David Earl wrote:
>Sent: 03 November 2006 1:54 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Residential areas
>
>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.
>

I disagree on this last point. In future their many be many many tags
applied to a feature. Some of them will be "standardised" so that specific
software can understand them (eg osmarender) others will be for other
standardised methods (eg route planning should someone get around to
defining some standards for that) and others still will be for personal or
specialised use where they are not necessarily understood by anyone except
their creator. We can suggest to drop or deprecate a tag in terms of its use
in something like osmarender (although nothing stopping anyone from adding
the functionality back in with a custom rules file) but that does not mean
the tag has no value or usage elsewhere.

We already suggest in Map Features the primary values that can be applied to
the abutters tag, in the next version of the tagging schema it will
hopefully be much clearer how to use / limit and extend the values on tags
and thus remove some of these issues.

Cheers

Andy


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