[Tilesathome] Tecent t at h style changes

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> There has been some discussion previously about the abutters tag being 
> useful for other purposes.  For example, in route planning to indicate 
> that a road is residential and so not the most desirable route.

That's highway=residential, not abutters=residential?

> The fidelilty of areas described with landuse=residential is generally 
> higher than abutters=residential

Agreed. That's why I basically support removing the abutters and 
replacing them by landuse; if the landuse would not have an advantage, 
then the whole effort would be without reason.

> because it can differentiate, for 
> example, which side of the road is residential.  The extent can also be 
> defined better, from imagery, than the crude approximation used by 
> abutters. 
> 
> I suspect that generating residential shading automatically would give 
> relatively low quality at results and be quite tricky to achive. 

I just am against the existing shading just being removed without 
anything to replace it for all the highway=residential roads we 
currently have. An auto-generated residential shading would be a good 
start I believe, and people would quickly fix it in areas where it is 
wildly wrong - while people wouldn't be so fast in adding 
landuse=residential to existing cities otherwise.

Bye
Frederik

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