Anthony wrote: > What about http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:area ?
That key doesn't describe the area covered by a road that is linear in character - whenever a road could intuitively described as something that goes "from here to there", area=yes likely isn't the right tag to use. Lines/cerbs/etc. are often obvious physical hints for linear character, but they don't need to be present for a road to be "linear". highway=* + area=yes is for plazas and the like: Features that don't have a concept of "direction". Instead, you can freely move from any point of the area to every other point (and are likely to use that ability to a certain degree). > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.077444&lon=-82.548096&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF To me, these look like perfectly normal roads that should be primarily mapped as ways. If you want practical arguments: Way representation is more useful for - rendering street names (visible in your example) - supporting different zoom levels (also visible in your example) - routing - rendering at non-natural widths: a rendering might choose to determine road widths according to, say, importance, or traffic density, or whatever, which is hard to do if roads aren't represented as ways - rendering with additional features along the road, say, lines for cycle lanes, or dots for street lighting (with areas, "along" doesn't quite exist) - anything that has directional information, such as oneway roads Of course, road area mapping still serves a purpose (primarily high-detail, low-abstraction rendering). But detailed information like that should be mapped *in addition* to ways, maybe similar to waterway=riverbank. I don't think that there is an established tag, but any tag that /isn't/ highway=* (or anything else already in use) should work. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
