On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:59 AM, johnw <[email protected]> wrote: > Google Maps is actually two different sets of data: Google’s and a Japanese > GIS company, Zenrin. They have basically surveyed all of Japan building by > building, and everything is drawn area based (because the roads in Japan can > be such weird shapes and always change width suddenly).
Frankly I don't find their road system to be that different to necessitate areal representation, I guess it's more of a tradition thing. But if you don't know, there is area:highway tagging scheme developed by Marek Kleciak that allows to represent roads as areas, as an extension to their linear representation. Note this is distinct from area=yes highways that simply don't have any meaningful axis. If there are resources available, people of Polish community (marimil) could help set up a visualization layer for it. Michał _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
