[OSM-newbies] sharing ways between areas

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:23 AM, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Both of you have tagged national parks with either
Tag:leisure=nature_reserve or Tag:leisure=natural_reserve, if you tag
these parks as Tag:boundary=national_park they will show up on
osmarender on all zoom levels, see e.g. Þingvallaþjóðgarður in
Iceland:

http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=64.28119052225476&lon=-21.098056591965555&zoom=11&layers=B0000F000F