[OSM-talk] Mapnik handling of highways that are also landuse...

[robin paulson]

Steve Chilton wrote:
> Dermot
> 
> There are two reasons why your "tag combination ought to be able to
> render correctly as is" statement is not valid.
> Firstly - as Thomas pointed out - mapnik likes one feature per way.
> Secondly - landuse=grass is not rendered at the moment (because of the
> vast disagreement on the whole landuse/natural/grass thing).
> What I am guessing you have on the ground is a residential square with a
> road round the outside and a grassy bit in the middle. There is no way I
> know of for mapnik to interpret this correctly from a double-tagged
> single way like this. It would have to be able to draw a line, a road
> fill, a second line, and then the grass fill.

Dermot,

this sounds a lot like you're using the same way to form the centre of 
the road, and the boundary of the grass. wouldn't it be easier to use a 
separate way to represent each?

i can't imagine the grass extends to the middle of the road

or am i getting the wrong end of the stick?