On 27/04/12 20:11, Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote: >> Anthony wrote: >> If I were writing a renderer (actually, I am), I would assume that a >> closed way does not represent an area unless it a) has an always-area >> tag such as landuse or b) is tagged with area=yes. Your idea that >> some tags should make a closed way into an area by default, unless >> there's also a certain other tag (like area=no) present, is not >> established mapping style as far as I can tell. Currently, tags are >> either unambiguous, or the default assumption is "not an area". > Well that's a mistake that should be fixed. > > _______________________________________________ > I think that it's not a mistake.
The idea of having different defaults for area= would not only keep programmers busy (they can do more beneficial things during the time wasted for this), it also confuses mappers. I (as a mapper) don't want to look up the default for every tag. Another point: A platform is a usually footway. They often work as footways as well, so I think that in this case they should be tagged highway=footway anyway. Different defaults for the area tag would create an ambiguity. This is just the first example of this inconsistency that comes to my mind. By the way - why are you tagging railway=platform? The public transport scheme has changed this to public_transport=platform more than a year ago. That's my two cents Marl _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
