OpenStreetMap Carto/Controversial decisions

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Present in the Latest Release of Osm-carto

Area hedges not rendered

The rendering for barrier=hedge mapped as areas was changed in v4.25.0 (released in February 2020), so that hedges mapped as areas no longer rendered with a solid green color, but instead with a green outline. In the following thread on the tagging mailing list some mappers criticised the change in rendering a tagging scheme documented in the wiki.