Hi Pat, I'll echo what the other guys have said here - currently, peat bogs have no special rendering on OSM and are rendered as a generic "wetland". With so much new bog data coming, I have already been in contact with Steve Chilton, the main cartographer working on the Mapnik rendering, to discuss a more suitable style. As we don't map for the renderer, this is OK - though of course, we do have to make sure that we are rendering for the map :)
A further issue is one that Larry touched on - sometimes we will disagree with the land cover as chosen by Corine. In particular, many of the areas of "bog" seem to be a little unusual. The Great Sugar Loaf in Wicklow can be seen to be shown as mostly bog whereas it's actually mostly rocky. This brings us to a point that we've already discussed on IRC - the definition of a peat bog. Because our tagging uses the word "wetland", some mappers have considered that only saturated bogs should be so-tagged and that bogs should be considered impassable. But there are a few different cases that we probably should plan to reflect in a sub-tag. Today, we tag: natural=wetland wetland=bog I propose using subtags for different types of bog, and I'll include an ill-considered list below as a starter for discussion: * Saturated bogs, impassable to pedestrians (bog=saturated) * Worked bogs, being excavated for their turf (bog=worked). Do we need to distinguish here between small-scale manual cutting and industrial harvesting? * Peat-hag terrain (bog=peat_hag) * Peaty soil, heather and other bog plants, but not so water-logged as to be impassable (not sure of a good tag here - some have suggested that this is what "heath" is for, but does that reflect the peat content?) Before we start to overrule Corine and retag what it considers a bog it would be very useful to reach our own consensus on what one is. Cheers, Dermot On 8 February 2011 08:54, Patrick Flanagan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > Overall appearance good but density of rushes on open mountains appear > way too high and will dimish clarity of hiking paths., Can anything be done > to improve clarity in this respect? > Pat Flanagan OSM mapper -- -------------------------------------- Igaühel on siin oma laul ja ma oma ei leiagi üles _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
