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

[Andrew Harvey]

> No, all highways are areas :) Mapping them as a line is a manual
generalization ;)

Yes, but you're mapping the road centerline, which isn't a generalization
but a real world feature.



On 11 August 2018 at 15:56, Andrew Hain <andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> The wiki has definitely had problems recently and we should have a good
> discussion about what we want from it.
>
> --
> Andrew
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> *From:* Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>
> *Sent:* 10 August 2018 18:13:36
> *To:* Tomasz Wójcik
> *Cc:* Talk Openstreetmap
> *Subject:* Re: [OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*
>
> Sounds fine by me.  Seems there's a decent sized contingency working the
> wiki independently of how things are actually tagged anymore, it's been
> getting hard to point to the wiki as a usable reference for a couple years
> now.
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 05:08 Tomasz Wójcik <tomox3 at wp.pl> wrote:
>
> So basing on your opinions, it looks like highway=* + area=yes isn't
> incorrect, it's just not documented. What do you guys think about adding
> a better documentation of combination with area=yes to some of highway=*
> Wiki pages?
>
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