John F. Eldredge wrote: > On a related issue, since a way that forms a closed loop is interpreted as > the boundary of an area rather than as a way, how does one map a road or > trail that forms a closed loop? > > It depends on the context. A closed loop tagged with a highway tag is just a closed highway. Roundabouts are often simple closed loops, but render as a ring not an area. There are exceptions of course (it wouldn't be OSM without them :-)) If you want to draw a piazza draw the closed outline with highway=pedestrian which would normally render as a closed loop, but if you add area=yes the whole space is rendered as a filled piazza.
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