[Openstreetmap-dev] Areas or Polygons

[Tom Carden]

Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> Areas included already in the proposal at
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/wiki/index.php/XML_Schema.
>
> However, they are unimplemented.
>
> The tags within the area should not be a real data tag, but a reference to
> an already existing node. This is the same as for segments and streets.
>   

Why?  Would you reuse these "nodes" in more than one polygon?

Tom.