[OSM-talk] Proper use of landuse=residential ?

[Andy Robinson]

Tom Chance wrote:
>Sent: 17 October 2007 8:32 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Proper use of landuse=residential ?
>
>On Wednesday 17 October 2007 02:19:09 Brent Easton wrote:
>> My preferred method is not to use landuse=residential at all, just fill
>up
>> the area with highway=residential or abutters=residential streets.
>
>Can I ask why?
>
>So far as I know, abutters are deprecated and landuse areas are preferred!
>They look *much* neater as well.
>

Personally I feel both are still valid. I still add the abutters data to
ways and will continue to do so because its information that's relevant to
the street not exactly the landuse. I've left off adding landuse=residential
tagging for most of my areas (have done a few) but only because it's easier
to edit the highway data without the extra clutter at the moment. In my
final checks and local area observations I'll add all these in, especially
as now that ways have only nodes its easier to reuse nodes on highways to
act as the boundaries.

Cheers

Andy