[Talk-us-massachusetts] highway=service and area=yes

[Nicholas Davidowicz]

I haven't done it much for fear routers might not like it. It does look
good on the OSM renderer though. Big asphalt area can be very good
references, from air and ground vehicles, that was my reasoning for mapping
them.

On Mar 7, 2017 7:52 PM, "Alan & Ruth Bragg" <alan.ruth.bragg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ​I'm travelling in the SW and have noticed people mapping driveways as
> areas for entire neighborhoods.
> ​Looked a bit weird to me so I searched in MA to see how street areas were
> being used.
>
> I found a good example where Lars ​tied some footways together with
> highway=footway, area=yes
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/104864046#map=19/42.21536/-70.92431
> I think his choice in this instance was better than using
> highway=pedestrian, area=yes
>
> Looks good to me and conveys the reality of the site and the routers are
> not confused.
>
> One of our new contributors, ndavidow
> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ndavidow> has been using
>  highway=service,area=yes for large asphalt areas not identified for
> parking.
>
>
> There is a proposal for area:highway tag at http://wiki.openstreetmap.
> org/wiki/Proposed_features/area:highway
>
> After a quick read I wasn't too enthusiastic.
> Alan
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