Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.05am, Monday, 31st August 2009]

You are connecting a road defined as just a vector without any surface in the db with an area defined as the exact outline (and thus with a surfac area). These are 2 different concepts, and especially when you connect them at corners, as you have done, visual misalignments will result.

I suggest you connect the roads further away from the corners, along the edges. This also corresponds more closely to how they connect in real life, as I don't think the road center line connects to the corner of the area.

I don't see exactly how the renderer can correct for this, currently.

Author: ezekielf[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.21pm, Saturday, 4th September 2010]

Not sure if this is what Pecik was talking about, but besides the misalignment (which the renderer can't fix), I notice that the living streets represented as ways are grey with a thin white casing while those represented as areas are the same grey but do not appear to have the white casing. Putting the white casing around the areas would make things look better in my opinion. In fact, in that same area I notice that service roads represented by ways and by areas both are white with a thin grey casing and the visual effect is nicer.

Visual misalignment will have to be dealt with by mappers though, I think.

Author: dieterdreist
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.29pm, Friday, 18th February 2011]

Replying to [comment:2 ezekielf@]:

Not sure if this is what Pecik was talking about, but besides the misalignment (which the renderer can't fix),...
Visual misalignment will have to be dealt with by mappers though, I think.

It is not "visual" misaligment, it is actual wrong alignment by the mapper. The usual highway-line represents the center of the road and should connect to the area where the center of the road intersects with the area. This is only in very rare cases the corner.

Author: math1985
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.50pm, Saturday, 3rd May 2014]

This seems to be a tagging error, so I will close this issue.