On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 23:04, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...These would actually be an example of a feature > that does have a verifiable border, and could therefore be mapped as > an area by following the top of the cliff all the way around, but I > don't see any great benefit to doing all that work to copy the path of > the natural=cliff, when a node at the center of the feature will do. > I would always see a node as just a temporary approach to map a plateau in place of a closed way. The advantage of a way is renders get a sense of size of the feature and can decide at which zoom level to label it. It also helps for building reverse geocoders so they can say you're on X plateau when inside the area. Neither really possible with just a node.
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