On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote: > Anthony wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Where did I mention a renderer? If you draw a closed polygon with >>> railway=platform, that's a continuous platform with a hole in the middle. >>> There may be a few cases of such in real life at a complicated junction. >> >> If so, they should be tagged with area=no. > > "area=no" can be considered a "sic!", but that tag should never have any > actual effect.
Effect on what? If I were writing a renderer, I would assume that a closed way railway=platform represented an area unless it was tagged area=no. So that's an effect. > If a feature can be either a closed way or an area, the default > interpretation should always be the closed way. Otherwise, you'd have to > know arbitrary defaults for each type of object. A default set to the value which is correct 99.999999999999999999999% of the time is not arbitrary. Should defaults be documented somewhere? Absolutely. Should users of the data ignore reality because someone wrote something somewhere in the wiki? Absolutely not. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
