Author: grand.edgemaster[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 8.26pm, Friday, 16th January 2009]

It's usually tagged differently, for example

area = yes
highway = pedestrian
foot = yes

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/23107244

Author: emj
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.47am, Wednesday, 21st January 2009]

But should a footway area render as a pedestrian area? It seems saner.

Author: lutz.horn[at]fastmail.fm
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.34am, Wednesday, 21st January 2009]

Replying to [comment:2 emj]:

But should a footway area render as a pedestrian area? It seems saner.

The example I gave is definitely not a pedestrian area. So changing the tagging doesn't help.

BTW: Osmarender renders this footway area correctly. See

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.89992&lon=8.6925&zoom=17&layers=0B00FTF

Author: steve8[at]mdx.ac.uk
[Added to the original trac issue at 7.38pm, Sunday, 1st March 2009]

area=yes, highway=footway rendered as pedestrian. With footway being red dashed line it had to be thus. Added barrier=gate as that was not rendering (only highway=gate).