[OSM-newbies] How to draw land-use areas

[John Sturdy]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Me, I think the only real solution is a neat way to map both a line
> and an area, simultaneously. Draw an area, and also a line, tag them
> appropriately, and link between them. Then a renderer that can do a
> good job of areas could ignore the line, and vice versa.

This is already sometimes done for rivers, with "waterway=river" for
the line, and "waterway=riverbank" for the boundary of the area.

__John