[OSM-newbies] defining an area with potlatch

[ael]

Uwe Geuder wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation.
> 
>> Will something like that fit your case(s)?
> 
> I didn't have any particular case in mind. As a true newbie, I just
> happened to read this discussion and tried to understand how the
> system works.
> 
> So the original answer, you draw an area by drawing a closed way was
> incomplete. Obviously it should have been added: "and tag it
> appropriately".
> 
> And there doesn't seem to be a single standardized way to indicate in
> an abstract way that a circular way represents an area, but the
> appropriate tag depends on the context.
> 
> Examples:
> 
> 1. amenity=parking (interpreted implicitly as area, if applied to a
> circular way)
> 
> 2. highway=pedestrian, area=yes (explicitly tagged as area, because
> there are also circular pedestrian ways, which are not areas)
> 

I rather agree with you. Perhaps all areas should carry the area=yes,
but I suppose where there is absolutely no possibility of anything else
it can be implicit.

ael