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

[Tom Pfeifer]

On 10.08.2018 13:20, djakk djakk wrote:
> No, all highways are areas :) Mapping them as a line is a manual generalization ;)

1., yes. 2., no, it is a mental abstraction, necessary to apply the mathematical graph theory for 
routing.

On 10.08.2018 12:02, Tomasz Wójcik wrote:
 > ... it looks like highway=* + area=yes isn't incorrect, it's just not documented.

As said before, it was documented already on the area=* page. It might need to be more explicit on 
the highway pages.

tom