Key:abutters

For describing the predominant usage of land along a road or other way.

Usage

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 aerial imagery for the area you're editing.

If you are very familiar with an area or can definitely recognise landuse from the aerial 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	Photo
abutters	commercial		predominantly office buildings, business parks, etc.
abutters	industrial		predominantly workshops, factories, warehouses
abutters	mixed		where there is no clear predominance, for example mixed shops and residences in an inner city ring
abutters	residential		predominantly houses and apartments
abutters	retail		predominantly shops
abutters	user defined		All commonly used values according to Taginfo

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