On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Tobias Knerr <[email protected]> wrote: >> 01.05.2012 11:53, Pieren wrote: >>> (and rendering issue cannot be >>> fixed by splitting the way for instance). >> >> We could do that for highways and other examples, too: Always treat >> closed loops as an area, and model other loops by splitting the way. > > That would have broken backward compatibility.
And the question from Pieren is whether anyone can point out a *single instance* of a platform where compatibility would be broken by not assuming a closed way is an area. Really, I think he's being generous. A map maker should generally not intentionally create maps which are incorrect in 99% of the cases, just because of a mistake in the wiki. I guess there is an argument for the maker of the map appearing at www.openstreetmap.org to do it, on the theory that its primary purpose is to help editors, but that's a far cry from "that tag should never have any actual effect" "On renderers or any other applications working with OSM data". _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
