[OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*

[Maarten Deen]

Then I still don't understand the problem. A closed way tagged with 
highway=* will by default route. A closed way with area:highway=* will 
not. You'll have to introduce logic in the router to do so.

Regards,
Maarten

On 2018-08-08 14:49, john whelan wrote:
>> I don’t get why highway=footway + area=yes is considered as wrong
> tagging !
> 
> The problem is consistency.  If the renderers and routers don't
> understand your tagging then it is less visible.
> 
> Cheerio John
> 
> On 8 August 2018 at 08:40, djakk djakk <djakk.djakk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I don’t get why highway=footway + area=yes is considered as wrong
>> tagging !
>> 
>> djakk
>> 
>> Le mer. 8 août 2018 à 12:52, Tomasz Wójcik <tomox3 at wp.pl> a
>> écrit :
>> 
>>> As highway=footway etc. tags are set to "should not be used on
>>> areas" on Wiki, and mapping them in combination with area=yes is
>>> not documented at all and considered as wrong tagging by part of
>>> users, there is a key "area:highway=*" (133k uses at the moment).
>>> Part of users still map footway areas as a combination anyway,
>>> propably because it's rendered by default style. Due to our rules,
>>> that we shouldn't have 2 active tagging schemes for the same
>>> feature, so we should discuss this topic.
>>> 
>>> I vote for area:highway=* key, because it's simpler, and it gives
>>> a possibility to show also street areas with crossings in the
>>> future.
>>> 
>>> * Wiki with specyfications of a:h=* for certain keys:
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:area:highway [1]
>>> * TagInfo: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/area:highway [2]
>>> * area:highway=* visualisation: http://osmapa.pl/w/area [3]
>>> 
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> Links:
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> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:area:highway
> [2] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/area:highway
> [3] http://osmapa.pl/w/area
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