Index: /trunk/styles/standard/elemstyles.xml
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--- /trunk/styles/standard/elemstyles.xml	(revision 1555)
+++ /trunk/styles/standard/elemstyles.xml	(revision 1556)
@@ -668,5 +668,7 @@
 		<condition k="highway" v="pedestrian"/>
 		<line width="3" realwidth="5" colour="foot#00ff00"/>
-		<area colour="foot#00ff00"/>
+		<!-- seems to be common to use area=yes for areas here -->
+		<!-- some people seem to have problems that polylines displayed as areas, so comment this out -->
+		<!--<area colour="foot#00ff00"/>-->
 		<icon annotate="true" src="misc/deprecated.png"/>
 		<scale_min>1</scale_min>
@@ -1525,5 +1527,7 @@
 	<rule>
 		<condition k="man_made" v="pier"/>
-		<area colour="pier#660000"/>
+		<!-- seems to be common to use area=yes for areas here -->
+		<!-- some people seem to have problems that polylines displayed as areas, so comment this out -->
+		<!--<area colour="pier#660000"/>-->
 		<line width="2" colour="pier#660000"/>
 		<icon annotate="true" src="nautical/pier.png"/>