[OSM-dev] missing tags?

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just looking through features that are not rendered correctly in Mapnik and I 
> see this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <osm version="0.3" generator="OpenStreetMap server">
>   <way id="4245075" timestamp="2007-01-23 00:50:29">
>     <seg id="21369626"/>
>     <seg id="21369627"/>
>     <seg id="21369628"/>
>     <seg id="21369629"/>
>     <seg id="21369613"/>
>     <seg id="21369615"/>
>     <seg id="21369616"/>
>     <seg id="21369617"/>
>     <seg id="21369619"/>
>     <seg id="21369621"/>
>     <seg id="21369622"/>
>     <seg id="21369623"/>
>     <seg id="21369624"/>
>     <seg id="21369625"/>
>     <tag k="name" v="Waterloo Station"/>
>     <tag k="created_by" v="YahooApplet 1.0"/>
>   </way>
> </osm>

That was me. I didn't know what tag to use at the time I first added the
way. I went back to add it later with JOSM. Maybe it didn't save due to
the server being overloaded or something, or possibly I just forgot to
press save...

Personally, I think there should be a tag that renderers can see and
instantly mark something as an area rather than as a road. All areas
should have this tag. All non-areas shouldn't. That way, the station
would have been rendered as an area in a grey colour, rather than as a
road around the perimeter of the station.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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