[OSM-talk] Retail, Commercial & Industrial

[Andy Robinson]

When I drafted up the original Map Features I did not include the landuse
stuff because at the time areas had not been implemented. With areas
possible using enclosed ways then you have a choice whether to use the
abutters tags on existing segments and ways or to create new areas (as
enclosed ways) and tag them with landuse. I guess the choice is yours. I
would agree that logically it makes sense to use the same value names for
abutters and landuse, they are afterall trying to achieve basically the same
thing.

So I've added retail to the landuse list on Map_Features and also added
"brownfield" to cover former industrial and other previously developed land
that has fallen into disuse. Also "greenfield" which I felt was a good way
of annotating areas which did not fit as a farm or one of the other
"natural" key tags. Often you can tell land is being used for something but
not necessarily know that its for farming or some other use.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Collinson Mike
>Sent: 07 September 2006 4:24 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Retail, Commercial & Industrial
>
>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
>
>
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