[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Street area

[Tobias Knerr]

On behalf of the proposal author, I would like to introduce you to the
following proposal, which intends to formalize the area:highway tag:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Street_area

The idea to use areas tagged as area:highway in addition to the highway
way is almost 5 years old. However, there are a lot of open questions,
which this proposal attempts to finally resolve.