[OSM-dev] Mapnik rendering of leisure=park + landuse=* relations

[Dan Homerick]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/10/6 Dan Homerick <danhomerick at gmail.com>:
>> Ideally, leisure=park areas (which have an alpha transparency less
>> than 1) would render on top of landuse=* areas (which mostly/all? seem
>> to have an alpha of 1).
>
> there would be a different conflict though: forests in Parks. They
> would not show up any more. This conflict cannot be solved by just
> chnaging the rendering order...

Why is this? That is, what is special about forests as compared to
say, landuse=wood? Rendering a park on top of a wood seems to nicely
convey that it's a wooded area in the park.

- Dan