[OSM-newbies] sharing ways between areas

[James Ewen]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Joe Richards <joefish75 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am trying to put a large national park into the map here:
> Permalink to NZ map of Abel Tasman national park
> with the intention of making the area green and labelled as
> a national park.  It's a very big area so I've split it into about three areas.
>
>  2. the national park doesn't appear green, which was the main
> intention in the first place.

Good luck making your National Park show up. It is my understanding
that if you would like to have your National Park show up at a
national scale (or even at anything larger than being able to see much
more than a couple miles around), then you're going to have to render
your own tiles.

I traced out Elk Island National Park, a small park near Edmonton, AB
which only shows up to zoom level 10. I was going to add the larger
National Parks in Alberta, namely Wood Buffalo, Jasper, Banff, and
Waterton, but you'd only be able to know that they existed if you were
zoomed in so close that you'd only see a green background, or happened
along the border of the park.

Here's a permalink to Elk Island National Park, with the Cooking Lake
- Blackfoot Grazing Reserve along it's southern border.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.555&lon=-112.838&zoom=10&layers=B000FTF

Have a fiddle around with the zoom levels here to see what the
rendering shows up like.

According to the gurus, we're supposed to map stuff with no regard for
what the renderers do, but it's hard to get excited about putting
hundreds of hours of work into creating something that you can't see
on the map...

James
VE6SRV