[Tilesathome] What is point of highway=* area=yes?

[Brent Easton]

I'm just interested, are there lists other than tilesAtHome where Osmarender changes are discussed? I don't remember this being discussed at all. I have no great problem with the change, but it is a major extension to the highway tag that has implications (off the top of my head - Map Features page,  possible migration to Mapnik,  possible auto-routing issues). It's something I thought might have been discussed on this list first?




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On 18/12/2007 at 7:49 AM Knut Arne Bjørndal  wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 03:32:44PM +1100, Brent Easton wrote:
>> What is the intended purpose of rendering highway areas for every single
>type of highway?
>
>Somebody suggested toll areas on motorways.
>
>Instead of trying to think about every single highway type for which
>somebody might wish to have an area I added the code for all of
>them. If all of them should be used (much) is a valid question, but
>that's really about the data, not the rendering rules.
>
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Brent Easton                       
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University of Western Sydney                                   
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