[Tagging] Removal of "amenity" from OSM tagging

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-05-15 17:23 GMT+02:00 Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl>:

> I see the area=* namespace as the most interesting and realistic
> candidate, because it's really basic word/object, and while it may look
> like a highly conflicting one (almost 700k uses already! -
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/area), in reality it's underused,
> because 99,39% of values are just yes/no
>


the area tag is sort of a special tag, it is used as a geometry flag to say
whether a closed way is linear or a polygon.

Cheers,
Martin
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