[Tagging] Railway=station + area=yes questions:

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> Il giorno 01 ott 2016, alle ore 18:50, John Willis <johnw at mac.com> ha scritto:
> 
> I have a long thread over at The -carto page trying to describe unexpected behavior of the rendering of railway=station on an area when also accompanied with area=yes. 
> 
> I expect that to tell the -carto renderer that I am saying this is the "area" of the station and building=train_station to be the building. 


the area=yes tag has no particular meaning here, because railway =station on a way is already about an area (as opposed to a linear feature). Every tag on an area is about the area, that's not what the area=yes/no tag is for. This tag is to state the geometry data type (linear/polygon) explicitly.


cheers,
Martin