On 23 February 2010 14:10, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > I was initially impressed with the German example of area mapping but > I have had a change of heart. While an interesting experiment, and > relatively well implemented in the small test area, I just don't think > area mapping of ordinary roads makes sense.
The question I've come to conclude is this: What harm does it do to the integrity of the map data? The only harm is if there is no way as well, or if people start joing roads to nature strips and making it a complete PITA to edit them independently of each other in future. At z18 the correct shape of the area will show if it's wider than the way, and at other zoom levels the normal way will take precedent as things get scaled etc. As Roy said before routing software shouldn't try to route along areas, at the same time the area should be rendered in such a way that doesn't bleed colour. This could be done simply by tagging the area the same as the way, or the more complicated method pre-processing method David mentioned. Also what ever is used should be tagged in such a way that people that don't want areas showing can disable them from rendering, this way everyone will be happy. Also I'd only tag the way not the area with the name so that people only wanting the way will still get things to render properly. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
