[Tagging] Paper streets?

[Anthony]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Luckily you're not the final judge of what's appropriate.

In this case that's actually unfortunate.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>>>> For a right of way designated in the plats (which, if it's in the
>>>> plats it shouldn't be built on, right?), maybe something like
>>>> landuse=right_of_way, or landuse=paper_street.
>>>
>>> That requires drawing it as an area rather than a single line.
>>
>> No, you can put any tags you want on any elements you want.
>
> So how would you draw a paper street that forms a circle?

I'm not sure that I ever would "draw a paper street".  I don't see the
point of it (*).

But if you're asking how to map a closed way in OSM, and designate
that it is not an area (when using a tag which can be used for both
areas and non-areas and defaults to area=yes), that would be area=no.

(*) Maybe for "a confusing situation where a street appeared on Google
Maps, but not on OSM", I might draw the street and not put any tags on
it except maybe "note=appears in Google Maps but doesn't actually
exist".  Though even then, probably not, because someone might claim
that infringes on the Google Maps TOS.