[Talk-de] [OSM-talk] POI display on osm.org

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/1/22 Andreas Labres <list at lab.at>:
> On 22.01.13 08:52, Roland Olbricht wrote:
>> Not every closed way is an area, so there has to be some tag selection.
>
> There is a short list of keys that imply an area (e.g. building, landuse,
> natural, leisure), otherwise there has to be an explicit area=yes tag.


actually the list is even shorter, as leisure has a value "track" and
natural several values like "coastline", "arete", "cliff", etc., so it
is not the key but the key/value combination that makes sometimes a
closed way an area. This is not unambigous in all cases, that's why
there will probably be an area datatype in the future.

cheers,
Martin