> I don’t get why highway=footway + area=yes is considered as wrong tagging
!

The problem is consistency.  If the renderers and routers don't understand
your tagging then it is less visible.

Cheerio John

On 8 August 2018 at 08:40, djakk djakk <djakk.dj...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don’t get why highway=footway + area=yes is considered as wrong tagging !
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> djakk
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> Le mer. 8 août 2018 à 12:52, Tomasz Wójcik <tom...@wp.pl> a écrit :
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>> As highway=footway etc. tags are set to "should not be used on areas" on
>> Wiki, and mapping them in combination with area=yes is not documented at
>> all and considered as wrong tagging by part of users, there is a key
>> "area:highway=*" (133k uses at the moment). Part of users still map footway
>> areas as a combination anyway, propably because it's rendered by default
>> style. Due to our rules, that we shouldn't have 2 active tagging schemes
>> for the same feature, so we should discuss this topic.
>>
>> I vote for area:highway=* key, because it's simpler, and it gives a
>> possibility to show also street areas with crossings in the future.
>>
>> * Wiki with specyfications of a:h=* for certain keys: https://wiki.
>> openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:area:highway
>> * TagInfo: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/area:highway
>> * area:highway=* visualisation: http://osmapa.pl/w/area
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