Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 4.14pm, Tuesday, 10th November 2009]

Splitting in multiple lines is almost always the right choice for buildings/areas. We cannot detect* that this building is exceptionally long and narrow, and invoke other rendering rules on that basis.

The building involved, for reference:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/23952274

• Yet. Who knows what future developments in the render software will bring, but I have a feeling this won't be possible soon.

Author: dieterdreist
[Added to the original trac issue at 4.38pm, Tuesday, 10th November 2009]

Replying to [comment:1 Ldp]:

Splitting in multiple lines is almost always the right choice for buildings/areas.

IMHO no, because this is ONE building, not several

We cannot detect* that this building is exceptionally long and narrow, and invoke other rendering rules on that basis.

you cannot detect it now, but maybe it would be worth to try to in the future. You don't have to solve this now, and sorry for misclassifying this as bug, it is an enhancement. Please keep this open as it helps to develop better rendering engines in the future.

The building involved, for reference:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/23952274

• Yet. Who knows what future developments in the render software will bring, but I have a feeling this won't be possible soon.
  might be

Author: math1985
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.05pm, Friday, 30th May 2014]

I'm not sure if keeping it in one line would be better, especially for long but diagonal buildings.

In any case, we cannot solve this in the stylesheet for now, so the issue does not belong in this component. I will therefore close the issue.