@LeifRasmussen Thanks for telling me! I’ll check it out.

Ah! Thank you for the link. I was confusing “area:highway” with some of the discussions about “landuse:highway”.

@escada A fair point. I’ll update my areas to end at the sidewalk, to be more in keeping with the parcel boundaries. I’m still of the opinion that each block should have its own area, however. To me, it doesn’t make sense that a landuse area would end at one street’s edge (implying that there is an important distinction), but then cover over other streets entirely (implying the opposite).

As @LeifRasmussen points out, highway areas are street-only. There’s no obvious landuse tag for that right-of-way strip between the parcel and the street, but that’s beyond the scope of what I’m doing at the moment.