<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">From what I remember people are already using  `area:highway=*` for detailed street area mapping.<div class=""><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/area:highway" class="">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/area%3Ahighway</a><br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>I would think `landuse=highway` would work kind of like `landuse=railway`, used to map a right of way corridor, not the actual asphalt surface.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks, Bryan</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 13, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Leo Gaspard <<a href="mailto:osm-ml@leo.gaspard.io" class="">osm-ml@leo.gaspard.io</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">These tags has already been put forth in the landcover proposal [1], but<br class="">I was just pointed to [2] where a user complained (rightfully) that the<br class="">shape of the road on OSM mismatched the shape of the actual road.<br class=""><br class="">As a consequence, I think we should add the `landuse=highway` in the<br class="">list of officially-defined tags, especially given it is already used<br class="">~10k times.<br class=""><br class="">And encourage putting the relevant polygon inside the associatedStreet,<br class="">because that would make sense.<br class=""><br class="">And potentially also add landcover=asphalt, because why not?<br class=""><br class="">FTR, google maps already has a similar feature, that is visible eg. at [3]<br class=""><br class="">What do you think about this?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">[1] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landcover" class="">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/landcover</a><br class=""><br class="">[2] <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1387860" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1387860</a><br class=""><br class="">[3]<br class=""><a href="https://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#18/35.8820/139.5169&num=2&mt0=mapnik&mt1=google-map" class="">https://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#18/35.8820/139.5169&num=2&mt0=mapnik&mt1=google-map</a><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Tagging mailing list<br class="">Tagging@openstreetmap.org<br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>