[OSM-talk] area tags

[Tom Hughes]

In message <32074.1195483325 at foxharp.boston.ma.us>
        Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:

> tom wrote:
>
>  > Indeed not. The renderers just know that ways with certain tags
>
> it's the "just know" part that i'm after.

Well it's kind of heuristically encoded in each renderer's style
sheet (and also to some extent in osm2pgsql for mapnik).

There isn't really a big list of "valid" tags and what they mean
and where they are point, line or area tags - it's not the OSM way ;-)

Tom

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