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

Thomas Wood grand.edgemaster at gmail.com
Sun Apr 27 15:50:03 BST 2008


On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Jeffrey Martin <dogshed at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
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> > m.v.g.,
> > Cartinus
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This is probably because the JOSM stylesheet does not recognise
amenity=fuel on areas. Don't panic, it can't possibly know how to
render everything. (I personally dont like the WYSIWYG type map
editing :)

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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)




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