[mkgmap-dev] patch to correct plazas in default style

Fri Feb 20 09:53:03 GMT 2009

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:58:23 -0600
Ben Konrath <ben at bagu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Currently the default style creates a residential road for plazas 
> correctly marked with highway=pedestrian, area=yes. An example of such a 
> plaza can be found here:
> 
> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=9.932554&lon=-84.071404&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF
> 
> A patch to correct this behaviour is attached. Comments are appreciated.
> 
> Cheers, Ben

Tagging an area as a highway, is that commonplace? According to
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features, highways are lines,
not areas.

However, I don't have a problem with what the patch is doing although I
haven't actually tried it out.

Cheers,

Mark