[OSM-newbies] JOSM: How do I create areas?

[Jeffrey Martin]

My parking area gets filled in in JOSM, but my
fueling area does not.

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Sunday 27 April 2008 12:20:28 Brian Prangle wrote:
> > You create a closed way and tag it area=yes and then tag it with
> whatever
> > is relevant such as  landuse=residential,l building =yes,
> amenity=parking
>
> You only _need_ area=yes on ways that can be seen as both a linear object
> and
> an area object. E.g. highway=pedestrian can be both a road for pedestrians
> (without area=yes) and a town square (with area=yes). But amenity=parking
> only makes sense as an area (or single node), so tagging it with area=yes
> is
> redundant.
>
>
> --
> m.v.g.,
> Cartinus
>
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