Ticker Berkin <rwb-mkgmap@jagit.co.uk> writes:
I know that the OSM definition says square should have area=yes, but I find a vast number where there is no area tag and they seem to be square/piazza, eg
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5174171
With Italy data from July 2018, I get about 5000 highway=pedestrian polygons without an area tag, and, from a small sample, about 1 in 3 look like piazza.
The only effect is that a polygon is generated, it doesn't effect routes. I prefer to see the possible square rendered.
I see this as part of a larger issue: when the OSM data is wrong, but it's possible to figure out what it should have been, should those errors be fixed up in map generation? A compromise might be to explicitly note the workaround in the style file, rather than making it seem like the style is correctly interpreting the data.