[OSM-talk] Retail, Commercial & Industrial

[Collinson Mike]

At 01:01 PM 7/09/2006, Robert Scott wrote:
>On Thursday 07 September 2006 02:19, Collinson Mike wrote:
> > The definitions would be the same as 'abutters' tag I think?
>
>Ah. I hadn't seen that abutters has retail attribute - never used 
>abutters. So
>should I take from this that there's supposed to be a landuse=retail
>attribute, it fits into the landuse model, but nobody's put it on the wiki
>yet?
>
>robert.

Yes, that would make sense, though I don't speak with any authority 
and I'd guess this issue is new.

My understanding of 'abutters' is that its main use is for colour 
shading around around roads in an urban environment to give an 
indication of the type of area without being precise as to 
extent.  I've just started using it myself as it is a fairly easy 
thing to record and has high impact on a map.

I'd suggest to whoever's baby the 'landuse' and abutters' tags are, either,

a) there should be an exact correspondance between the values of each 
(and therefore 'retail' should be added to 'landuse'); or

b) the 'abutters' set of values should be an urban subset of 'landuse'.

Mike
Oz