[OSM-dev] Area data type -- again!

[Ilya Zverev]

steggink at steggink.org wrote:

> Can you please explain how ways referencing areas "work"? Preferably
> with some illustrations. Either I don't get it, or it doesn't make  
> sense. The way as I see it now you'll get some closed loops  
> along/inside ways.

I've made a visual example:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Zverik/Areas#Visual_example

Please read the proposal, you'll find some of your ideas already
introduced there. Also check
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/The_Future_of_Areas page, which
outlines problems with the current model and links to different
proposals for area datatype that were made in 2011-2012.

IZ