- The official website was intended to be a debugging view for database, so when you activate Map Data layer - OpenStreetMap Wiki in layers on the right, you still have to click the exact outlines. That’s the limit.
- Furthermore fundamentally, OSM don’t have an area object type. It only has
wayandrelationoftype=multipolygon. What considered as areas are generated by each application itself. It may be slightly beyond the purpose of the data layer view now. - To solve all these, you need to use an actual application. https://osmand.net/ has free hourly updates on iOS and Google Play Store if you are an anyhow active contributor, which is entirely waived and unconditionally free on F-Froid. As a middle ground, https://osmapp.org/ has similar objectives as the official website. There are more specialized views on https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/ , where both the data and appearance are customizable. You can also define the data and view your need with Overpass turbo/MapCSS - OpenStreetMap Wiki , or Overpass Ultra/Styling - OpenStreetMap Wiki by industry standard Mapbox/Maplibre making the display very flexible with vector styles. If you only want to choose from pre-defined styles, you can compare different map renders on eg Map Compare | Geofabrik Tools for raster tiles.
Minutely updated vector tiles demo is being worked on. Perhaps clickable PoI can come afterwards.
Reminder: Call for Feedback on the Data Model | OpenStreetMap Blog The area object type seems somewhat stalled, alongside other data needs osmlab/osm-data-model · Discussions · GitHub