Richard,
Thanks for the reply.
It would be interesting to know why "abutters" has fallen
out of favor, because it seems like a good solution. Is there a
cartographic reason? Is it difficult to capture in a map, as opposed
to in a database?
For the area I am working, "abutters" may be a better
solution. There are lots of secondary and tertiary roads through
residential areas. In LA, with so many drivers trying to get some
place, some residential steets have become widened to the point of
being secondary roads. Also, LA is a town of boulevards. Originally
meant to be more decorative than transportive, some have become main
trunks to get around town. So, today they have the physical
characteristics of a primary or secondary road, and carry traffic to
match, they often pass through exclusively (and exlusive) residential
neighborhoods.
Charlotte Wolter
At 05:37 PM 10/20/2009, you wrote:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Charlotte Wolter
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Randy and everyone.
>
> Thanks.
> Rethinking it, I read some more in the wiki and discovered that I
> could use "abutters" [ ... ]
Abutters has fallen out of favor and landuse areas are preferred. As
described in [1] "falling out of favor" suggests the question "out of
favor with who?" and "but what if I really want to use the older tag?"
That's cool.
Particularly where things get "interesting" I prefer to tag the
verifiable details, rather than generalizations like landuse. So I'll
add the row of residential, light industrial, commercial, residential,
school, residential, church, drive-in theatre along one stretch of
road, rather than look for the perfect tag for
mixed-use-plus-entertainment.
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features
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