[OSM-talk] Mapping streets as areas - can I do it now?

[Roy Wallace]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:27 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The only harm is if there is no way as well, or if people start joing
> roads to nature strips and making it a complete PITA to edit them
> independently of each other in future.

I think this is important, and hasn't been addressed yet.

> Also I'd only tag the way not the area with the name so that people
> only wanting the way will still get things to render properly.

The outstanding question here is whether a relation should be used to
relate the way to the corresponding area.