There is an example of a line/area from indoor maps. In working in my real job we model walls either as a line or an area, depending on the resolution of the building source. A closed way can form an area-type wall or it can form a line-type wall closed around a room or a building.
I expect the same will be done in indoor maps in OSM, which I am working on. Dave On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Tobias Knerr <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24.03.2013 17:01, Martin Raifer wrote: >> The wiki (and thus also taginfo) has information about where a tag can >> be used on, but not whether the tag defines an area or not. See the >> following examples: >> >> * natural=cliff has onWay=true and onArea=true and defines a way as an >> area, if the way forms a closed loop. >> * name=* also has onWay=true and onArea=true, but does not define any >> way as an area. >> * highway=* has onArea=false, but if combined with area=yes (or any >> other area-defining tag) the way is still an area. > > Well, the first example is the one that contradicts my expectations. I > assumed the general rule was that only area-only tags (including > area=yes) can turn a closed way into an area. > > I did not know that there were actually features that can be linear, but > where a closed way nevertheless represents an area by default and you > need an area=no if you want it to be linear. If that is accepted > practice, though, then the wiki does indeed not have enough data to make > the distinction. > > Tobias > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
