[OSM-talk] Tagging shopping streets

[Nick Whitelegg]

>Or better, create an area with landuse=retail, which usually looks neater 
than
>abutters if there are quite a few streets.

>Now that we can draw areas using the landuse tag do people think that we 
should deprecate the use of the abutters tag? 

I think so. What I would like to see on Map Features though is a generic 
"landuse=urban" which is a catch-all for urban areas. These could be drawn 
easily using Landsat.

Nick