Am 25.04.2012 08:58, schrieb Elena ``of Valhalla'':
On 2012-04-24 at 21:46:35 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
On 4/24/2012 2:13 PM, Alex Barth wrote:
Pieren - thanks for pointing out that "area=yes" is highway only. How could the
documentation for it be clearer [1]?
It's not highway only. For example, it can be used on
railway=platform: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/94063273
or man_made=pier: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/71124853
but in both cases the meaning is "contrary to the default for
the main tag, this feature has not been described by tracing
its center line, but its perimeter"
as far as I know and always have considered, that is the meaning in
_all_ cases - because area was invented to differentiate between the
linear and area meaning of a tag, if it is ambiguous.
And it is documented - at least actually - for the use in both
directions, so even to distinguish a linear feature from a default area
feature (area=no).
But back to the "block name" question, I do not think area=yes is in
anyway necessary there:
If you consider block as an address feature, addr:block should be used
at the address itself, not at the block area in total.
If you consider to describe just the block area - just the perimeter -
to name it, I think place=locality on a closed polygon would be sufficient.
Only if you need to describe the block as an entity - as an
'administrative object' or something like that - you need a special
place= block value.
Georg
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