[Talk-GB] Landuse between fences?

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Wed Jan 1 11:00:57 UTC 2020


On 01/01/2020 07:13, Martin Wynne wrote:
> 
> However, I have discovered that highway=track, *area=yes* is valid - as 
> evidence of that it is rendered on the standard map as a light brown 
> infill between the fences with the existing highway=track as a routable 
> way superimposed over it, in darker brown.

That's tagging for the renderer, which you should not do.  If you map a 
highway as an area, you should not also map it as a line.  It is up to 
the router to deal with that.  If  you double map, there is no incentive 
for routers to deal with areas properly.

> 
> It seems odd to have highway=track twice, but if that's what it takes to 
> have a meaningful mapping for an area of land, I'm happy to do it that 
> way. Presumably the developers of the standard map know what they are 
> doing.

The standard map doesn't claim to be a definitive specification of what 
is allowable.  It is a combination of a technology demonstrator and a 
background map to assist mappers in placing other features.




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