[OSM-newbies] sharing ways between areas

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:35 AM, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Both of you have tagged national parks with either
>> Tag:leisure=nature_reserve or Tag:leisure=natural_reserve, if you tag
>> these parks as Tag:boundary=national_park they will show up on
>> osmarender on all zoom levels, see e.g. Þingvallaþjóðgarður in
>> Iceland:
>
> Aha, that's a boundary tag, not an area tag, which is where I was
> looking... however, that just draws a line boundary. What if you'd
> like to have the National Park as a filled area? We can get filled
> areas which depict land use for things like commercial use,
> residential use, etc.

Bug the maintainer of your favorite renderer I guess. Personally I
wouldn't like to have imaginary features like like any sort of
political boundaries colored on the ground on a map I'm reading, but
that's just me.