[OSM-talk] Tagging shopping streets

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Monday 23 October 2006 19:29, Etienne wrote:
> On 10/23/06, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
> > On Monday 23 October 2006 18:13, Dan Karran wrote:
> > > Can anyone tell me what the recommended tag is for shopping streets in
> > > pedestrian zones? I've looked through the highway tag and can't see
> > > anything that really fits...
> >
> > highway=pedestrian
> > abutters=retail
> >
> > 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?

YES :-)

It's an ugly sounding word anyhow ;-)

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Joerg