[OSM-talk] Residential areas

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Kristian Thy wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
>> In future, if someone like an Estate Agent want's to use our maps on
>> their site, they may want to do something like show residential streets
>> in a very different colour to show prospective buyers the kind of road
>> the house they are looking at is on. They may want to display the
>> information in a search listing not even on a map at all. e.g:
>>
>> House:     100 High Street, Cityville
>> Bedrooms:  3
>> Road type: Residential
>>
>> They should be able to derive that result from our data.
> 
> What does, in your opinion, distinguish a unclassified road from a
> residential road?

Residential has mainly houses alongside. Commercial has mainly shops and
offices, Industrial has mostly factories and warehouses. Country has
mainly fields / woodland etc.

I'm not sure we should introduce all of the above as highway= tags,
though. They are all applicable to several kinds of road, not just
unclassified. I guess I'm arguing for the abutters tag.

My main point was that we shouldn't say things like "Map renderers don't
need this information, they can use landuse tags of the area", when it's
not only maps that might want to use our data. Our tags should aim to
capture all the information we can easily survey and that might be
useful, not draw a pretty map with the current renderers.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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