On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Right now, what's stopping them? >> >> Documentation. Or, in other words, at least some suggestions as to how >> to do it. For example, you'll notice that Map Features states that >> highway's are ways, not areas. >> > Weird. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:area%3Dyes says that > highways can be areas.
Interesting, thanks for that link - it appears to be easy to overlook - for me, anyway. Note, though, that the Key:area page states "area=yes, in the context of roads, indicates that the area has no street lines within it". I expect we will want this restriction lifted at some point, to be able to indicate the area occupied by long roads, or roads with a direction. I guess the questions remain: 1) how to indicate an area's direction 2) whether it is necessary/most convenient (in some situations) to represent a particular highway as both a way AND an area 3) if so, how to relate a physical area to the corresponding logical way, if that's even necessary/recommended Apologies if this has been discussed before - if it has, please point me to the relevant discussion page :) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
