How would you like it rendered? Covered-as-in-a-shopping-mall is quite different to covered-as-in-protected-from-the-rain. The real problem is that it's scope is too broad.
Richard On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:11 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/7/20 Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com>: >> Layers don't work when there are area/way conflicts, because the norm >> for rendering is to draw areas first then ways on top. So you have to >> have a flag that says "this way isn't really on top". We have a >> perfectly adequate flag for this function (tunnel=yes), but people >> objected to using that for things that are not strictly tunnels. So we >> spawned "covered" as an alternative. I suspect it's also used to flag >> whether a walkway is covered or not, which is a rather different >> situation. > > > exactly, there is a lot of application cases and I don't see why our > definition should be so arbitrarily restrictive. > > >> In the UK >> covered=yes 345 >> covered=no 480 >> tunnel=yes 7662 > > > I suspect this is also due to the fact that covered=yes doesn't > currently get rendered. > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging