[OSM-talk] Tagging shopping streets

[Mike Collinson]

Wasn't
         highway=precinct
voted in a couple of weeks ago?

Mike
Oz

At 07:56 AM 24/10/2006, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote:
>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 ;-)
>
>-
>Joerg