[Tagging] tag "covered" questions

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014/1/23 Richard Z. <ricoz.osm at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> considering a fairly short way that is partially covered in several
> places by one or more buidlings:
>
> (1) should the way be split in sections and covered applied striclty only
>     to the covered sections
>


yes, as always you should add tags only to the parts of an object to where
they apply.



>
> Related, in cases where covered is used without a layer tag should there be
> a common node in the place the way is crossing the building boundary in the
> same way there are supposed to be common nodes when streams cross
> riverbanks
> or weirs?
>


IMHO there should always be a layer tag to store topology.

cheers,
Martin
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