2009/7/21 John Smith <[email protected]>: > > --- On Tue, 21/7/09, Tyler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> landuse. While I'm not convinced national parks, >> national forest wilderness areas, >> federal/state/county/municipal wildlife reserves >> shouldn't be solid fill areas in renderers,
well, imagine a well mapped place, where every landcover (say just forests and lakes to make it simple) are mapped: would you render your solid fill above (no other items visible) or below (not visible at all)? I think a hatch above the other features (like diagonal lines, or maybe even just an surrounding outline) are more suitable. >> I have no >> argument that boundary="reserve type" is >> inadequate. I do think that there should be a better way to >> tag nature reserves and allowed activities, to that end >> I'm currently looking into regulations in non-US >> countries with similarly regulated large areas (generic >> applicable tags seem appropriate). > > In some cases they are so large that they're used to help orientate yourself > on a map. With out them the map looks less map like. > > http://osm.org/go/uYrAQb-- I agree that they should be mapped and also rendered, but to make the map look "map-like" I suggest to map landcover/landuse, roads, rivers, ... In Germany there are lots of protective areas, some smaller, some bigger, to give you an impression look on this map of Hessen (just a small part of Germany but already loads of protective areas, click to zoom): http://atlas.umwelt.hessen.de/servlet/Frame/atlas/naturschutz/schutzgebiete/karten/schutzgeb/m_1_1_1.htm > Two thirds of the Aust. Cap. Territory is national park, ACT is only 100 sq > km I think: > http://osm.org/go/uNPvyrl- fine, I think this makes it clear that just one simple filling wouldn't be adequate. > Although it's hard to tell where the ACT is because state borders don't seem > to render at higher levels or when I fixed them up I over looked something. yes, that's an issue, there is this rendering problem (already filed a bugreport some time ago) that smaller (lower) administration boundaries are not displayed on reasonable zoom-levels. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
