[OSM-talk] Parking aisle as boundary of car park not showing

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 25.09.2008, at 12:23, Ed Loach wrote:
> I would agree, and if Frederik does want to tag roads as areas he
> could use the width= and/or est_width= tags, although it is unlikely
> that the renderers use them, assuming that the widths they currently
> render are based on just the highway= value and doesn't take into
> account any width tags (though I may be wrong).

Well I don't necessarily want to tag roads as areas, I just want to  
map the fact that something (e.g. a forest) extends exactly up to the  
road. If the road is 0 metres wide (or "as wide as the renderer wants  
it to be"), then the only way to map this is to re-use the road  
centreline as a forest border. If the road had a left and right  
shoulder line then I could use that to delineate the forest border.

It all boils down to whether the forest border and the road are  
independent of each other or whether you simply wanted to express  
"the forest stops at the road" (which is often the case for landuse  
or administrative areas, less often for forests).

Bye
Frederik

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