Speaking as a non-German, I find "tree-lined" more specific. In American usage, "avenue" is just a synonym for "street" or "road", with no connotation of tree-lined or not tree-lined. An "alley" in American usage is a narrow service road, generally only one lane wide, used for low-speed access to the side or back of properties. It is distinguished from a driveway in that a driveway is on private land and generally gives access to just one property; an alley is on public property and generally gives access to multiple properties.
-- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: Robert <rop...@online.de> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:54:32 To: Talk Openstreetmap<talk@openstreetmap.org> Subject: [OSM-talk] [tagging] alley - for tree-lined roads? Hello, We are discussing in talk-de (German board) just streets and other ways with many trees nearby. I found here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/tree_row alley=left/right/both I think the tag “alley” is a mistranslation (false friends) and 1. avenue or 2. tree-lined road is better for roads marked by trees. The tag alley is already used for highway=service; service=alley for narrow ways. I think the second version “tree-lined” or ”tree_lined” is better than “avenue”. With this key we can use it for other lines of trees, for example near railways, rivers and so on. At the moment this tag is probably only mainly used in Germany: http://osmdoc.com/de/tag/alley/#values comparison: http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Germany/De/tags.html key alley with values: both (251), right (27), left (26), yes (8) My questions: Would we like to change this tag? Robert _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
