[OSM-talk] ADDING THE ABILITY TO Mapping everything as areas

[Roy Wallace]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
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> The bottom line is that while adding 'width' tags all the way along a road may
> be a practical half way house, other area features are not handled the same way
> so why should roads be any different.

I think, because roads (ways) often need to have a direction. Hence
our discussion about ways to model a "directed area", with 1) an
ordered node-pair sequence or 2) a "multiplex" being 2 possible
options so far...