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Hi

I have a pedestrian area that has two different names, one for the north end & one for the south.
I want to label them as such.

I don’t want to map them as two separate areas because that would imply there’s a boundary/barrier.

Is there a tag that just displays the name but not an icon?
The closest I could find is the city/town tag but that would affect the search feature of OSM.

Thanks
Dave F.

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pedestrian area? Is that a highway=pedestrian, area=yes? didn’t know pedestrian areas had icons. Is that in osmarender you’re looking?

I suppose two separate areas doesn’t necessarily imply a boundary, just as two separate ways doesn’t imply two different roads (e.g. bridges are always separate ways) Wherever we need different tags, we separate elements.

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Adjacent areas don’t imply a boundary/barrier at all, so that’s what you should do. They should share nodes where they touch each other, though.

Whatever you do, don’t tag a x as y because you like the rendering of y better. :roll_eyes:

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I’m not sure i agree with you.

The problem arises because some renderers render some areas with a different colour border. It’s quite often the same way they render barriers such as fences.

Yes, I know, “don’t map for the render”, but I’m sure how to suggest to every renderer not to put borders on areas.

I wasn’t tagging because of what I liked, but because I wanted to find the best solution. Not sure the eyes roll was necessary.

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Which renderers, and what sort of areas?
I’ve just found some pedestrian areas near me. Yes, they are shown with a black border around them. But if there’s 2 pedestrian areas right next to each other (ie sharing nodes), then only a faint grey line is shown between them. Which implies there isn’t any sort of barrier between them.
This is the case in both Mapnik and Osmarender.

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Seeing that a area with a darker border is rendered the same way as many barriers it will be implied.

The fuzzy faint line at adjacent areas makes it look worse & more confusing.

Why are some area rendered with a border. Unless there’s a acceptable reason, I think they should be rendered without.

Cheers
Dave F.