[OSM-talk] Map Features List

[David James]

On Tue, December 11, 2007 5:46 pm, Chris Hill wrote:
>

> OK I'll leave them alone - that's why I asked.
>
>
> I'm keen to see why abutters is useful:
> How do you know which side of a way it applies to?

I've been wondering that too. I've a vague feeling that I've seen a
suggestion somewhere of using abutters:left and abutters:right, but that
could be a figment of my imagination.

I have a real-life example that I'm unsure how to tag where one side of
the street is residential and the other side is open fields, there must be
lots of cases like this.

The problem I have with landuse is that (as I read things) landuse tags an
area rather than a way, and I often don't know how deep the residential
area is perpendicular to the road.

> How do you know the extent of the type beyond the way?
> Does it get rendered?

I think an earlier reply said it doesn't.

It seems to me that at low zooms, residential areas get a grey shading.
Where does this come from? Is it coming from the existence of highways
which are residential? or abutters=residential, or is it just my eyesight
playing tricks because there are lots of ways packed close together ion
the rendered map?


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David James