[Tagging] covered definition in the wiki

[Richard Mann]

How would you like it rendered? Covered-as-in-a-shopping-mall is quite
different to covered-as-in-protected-from-the-rain. The real problem
is that it's scope is too broad.

Richard

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:11 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/7/20 Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com>:
>> Layers don't work when there are area/way conflicts, because the norm
>> for rendering is to draw areas first then ways on top. So you have to
>> have a flag that says "this way isn't really on top". We have a
>> perfectly adequate flag for this function (tunnel=yes), but people
>> objected to using that for things that are not strictly tunnels. So we
>> spawned "covered" as an alternative. I suspect it's also used to flag
>> whether a walkway is covered or not, which is a rather different
>> situation.
>
>
> exactly, there is a lot of application cases and I don't see why our
> definition should be so arbitrarily restrictive.
>
>
>> In the UK
>> covered=yes 345
>> covered=no 480
>> tunnel=yes 7662
>
>
> I suspect this is also due to the fact that covered=yes doesn't
> currently get rendered.
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
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