Key:abutters
+/- abutters
For describing the predominant usage of land along a road or other way.
Abutters
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Usage
For describing the predominant usage of land along a road or other way. This could be used for rendering if landuse=* area information is not available, or for routing. For example a road marked abutters=residential is likely to be slower than one through open country.
This tag is useful when:
- You are just passing through an area;
- You are not familiar with an area; and/or
- You do not have Yahoo! Aerial Imagery for the area you're editing.
If you are very familiar with an area or can definitely recognise landuse from Yahoo imagery, the landuse=* tag can give better rendering results. Even in these circumstances, abutters can be marked in order to provide an exception to the general rule: for example, retail areas consisting of flats-above with retail fronting along a street in the middle of a predominantly residential area. It is also useful to specify abutters on highway=unclassified in urban contexts, to help distinguish them from rural contexts.
Current preset values in Potlatch are:
- commercial - offices and small businesses
- industrial - includes light industry
- mixed
- residential
- retail - shops
See also: landuse
Values
See below for values for the 'abutters' tag:
| Key | Value | Element | Comment | Rendering | Photo |
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| abutters | commercial | 
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predominantly office buildings, business parks, etc. | 
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| abutters | industrial |
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predominantly workshops, factories, warehouses | 
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| abutters | mixed |
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where there is no clear predominance, for example mixed shops and residences in an inner city ring | ||
| abutters | residential |
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predominantly houses and apartments | 
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| abutters | retail |
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predominantly shops | ||
| abutters | user defined | 
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All commonly used values according to Tagwatch |
This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.
