Author: Cobra
[Added to the original trac issue at 8.53am, Monday, 22nd June 2009]

This happens also with other ways tagged highway=* and buildings. Even ways with layer=-1 (and tunnel=yes) are rendered above buildings with layer=1...
Only one thing works again: building=yes|amenity=place_of_worship which is now rendered again on top of highway=pedestrian|area=yes.

I understand that those ways should be visible even when there is a building "over" them so you can still see there are some ways but in my opinion the current style results in an awkward look at quite a few places.
Would it be possible to add some (pseudo-)transparency here (e.g. render the building with ~50% transparency above the way/area) so you can see that there is a building above the way but the way is still visible?

Author: Cobra
[Added to the original trac issue at 7.40pm, Sunday, 28th June 2009]

"Only one thing works again: building=yes|amenity=place_of_worship which is now rendered again on top of highway=pedestrian|area=yes." when I wrote this, I didn't notice someone had made a multipolygon there, so forget about that.

Author: MarsmanRom
[Added to the original trac issue at 7.51am, Tuesday, 16th February 2010]

ja, the problem really sucks. tried to get around it with 'multipolygon outer / inner', but for some reason even this doesnt work. layers are completely ignored. 2 buildings and a construction site are not being shown, just the square 'on top' of it:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.431441&lon=13.532622&zoom=18

Author: wicking
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.55pm, Thursday, 25th March 2010]

this is a duplicate of #1873. Am I right? Or is the other one a duplicate of this one (here is more information)? ;-)

Author: BiIbo
[Added to the original trac issue at 8.36pm, Sunday, 28th March 2010]

I think both of these tickets are the same issue, so perhaps close one of these two as duplicate of the other.

Author: emilien+osm[at]klein.st
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.20pm, Friday, 21st May 2010]

Encountered the same bug with a building hidden behind an area. Reported it in the forums [1], and using a multipolygon got the rendering right. More info in the forums.

[1] http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=7590

Author: math1985
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.19pm, Sunday, 4th May 2014]

This is a tagging error, as the buildings in the middle are not part of the square. See http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=7590 for more information. I will therefore close this issue as invalid.