On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:56 PM, James Ewen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem designating an area. The area in question is a park > on an island in the middle of a lake. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit.html?lat=53.5204&lon=-113.2733&zoom=17 > > I have it tagged as: > > natural = land > area = yes > leisure = park > layer = 1 > > This shows up as simply land, without the park colouring... > > Do I need the area tag to define it? Do I need the layer tag to get it > to render above the water? > > With each change taking a week to be rendered, it can be a long slow > process figuring out which attribute needs to be changed. > > James >
The way to tag this would be with the multipolygon relationship. This allows you to represent a 'hole' in the lake (the island), the park should then show through. There's a step by step guide on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Multipolygon#step_by_step_guide -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
