[OSM-newbies] Road below a building

[Randy]

David ``Smith'' wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Randy <rwtnospam-newsgp at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>That tagging makes perfect sense to me.  (Wait, that's pretty much
>exactly what I suggested earlier, isn't it?)  I might start using it
>for gas stations and banks with drive-throughs like you described.

Yes, as a matter of fact, that was your suggestion. Since, then I've 
reconsidered. I'm not suggesting not to do that (double negative?), but I 
think a different or maybe additional tag of covered=yes would provide a 
more general solution to covered highways, as well as making rendering 
easier. See my last previous post. It could even be used for covered 
bridges (highway=unclassified, bridge=yes, covered=yes) as well as any 
other section of road under a covering, as previously discussed 
(highway=service, covered=yes).

In some ways this is tagging for the renderers, which, I guess, is pretty 
much a no-no, but I think there is some merit for the additional tag as 
informative information, as well.

Guess I should throw this one to the tagging talk group.

-- 
Randy