Arcade may be better than colonnade, but arcade is definitely in more common usage in the UK for a pedestrian route through a block with shops on both sides, so it will be slightly misleading. However I suppose the position next to a road makes it clear that it's one-sided.
Richard On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Emilie Laffray <emilie.laff...@gmail.com>wrote: > Richard Mann wrote: > > An arcade usually cuts through a block, rather than running alongside > > a road. I'd have said colonnade was about right, though they're not > > exactly common in the UK (the two level shops at Chester spring to > > mind, but they are probably peculiar to themselves). We do have what > > can best be described as concrete awnings, eg in Birmingham, but they > > are stricly functional, and probably best described as something like > > covered=yes. > > > > I'd probably go for footway=colonnade > > > > Richard > Hello, > > I don't think colonnade would fit what we need here. The arcades are > always closed on one side and in ancient Greece, the closed side had > shops in it, which is usually not the case with colonnades at all. The > example given is pretty good, and it is relatively common in some parts > of France. Orleans and Tours would be an other example of what this > architecture is all about. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_(architecture) > However, the articles on wikipedia are pretty poor. I suspect that > footway=arcade would actually be the best description if I remember > correctly the definition. > > Emilie Laffray > >
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