On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just got a small question about abutters and landuse. From the > explanation of abutters[1] I gather your only supposed to use the tag > if you can't create a landuse area for the roads your travelling down. > Is this correct? > > For example in Widnes[2] we've got Yahoo coverage so we can work out > landuse from local knowledge and the imagery, so should I be using > abutters or landuse areas?
If you have aerial images, you can work out the land use. My understanding of abutters is if you're driving through an unfamiliar area mapping and there's residential on the street, you put "abutters=residential" because you don't know the extent of how far back the residential area goes; you can only see what's on the street you're on. Aerial images changes that... -- Eric Ladner _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
