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<div style="16px" text-align="left">It depends on a map. For OSM Carto (current default map style at<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">the OSM Main site) one may look at source code - for example<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/amenity-points.mss#L43">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/amenity-points.mss#L43</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">For other files see https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">8 May 2019, 03:18 by sophietheopossum@yandex.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">is there any articles on what does/doesn't get used on particular zoom levels? just figure it wouldn't hurt to double check my general understanding<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">On 5/7/19 1:21 PM, Russ Garrett wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 12:40, Martin Wynne <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:martin@templot.com">martin@templot.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">I don't know anyone who would say "I see a residential area". Or "I see<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">a plot of land with planning class C3 or C4".<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">From a zoomed-out perspective, landuse= (and natural=) is the main<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">thing you see on the map (especially if buildings aren't mapped), so I<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">think it's pretty useful from a cartographic point of view. It's not<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">just about what you see on the ground, but how you can turn that into<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">a useful map when you're looking at a large area.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">There are still chunks of the UK which look empty at medium zoom<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">levels (e.g. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/50.4437/-4.8581">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/50.4437/-4.8581</a>)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">due to lack of landuse mapping.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">_______________________________________________<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Talk-GB mailing list<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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