2010/7/20 Richard Mann <[email protected]>: > 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 [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
