[OSM-newbies] osmarender and natural=marsh

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harald Kirsch" <pifpafpuf at gmx.de>
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 9:56 AM
Subject: [OSM-newbies] osmarender and natural=marsh


> Hi,
>
> yesterday I tagged an area as natural=marsh the tile is by now rendered
> by osmarender, but the marsh does not show up. In the wiki, the tag is
> on the features page, not just proposed.
>
> What is the relation between features in the wiki and what osmarender
> renders?

Its a fairly loose relationship :)  In general a lot of the map features do 
get rendered, but there may be a time lag between items appearing on the map 
features page, and them being added to the render styles.

Also with the map features list growing at the rate it does, and with some 
of the map features being very specific, I doubt whether there will come a 
time when all the items on the map features page are rendered by the main 
Osmarender / Mapnik layers.  Instead those tags will be available if anyone 
wants to use OSM data to produce more specific renders of their own.

As regards natural=marsh, I had requested a few months ago that both the 
Mapnik and osmarender renderers render this tag, but as you point out 
currently it is still unrendered. I've used it to tag large areas of 
mangrove swamp around Darwin & Cairns (Australia), and had hoped that it 
would be rendered sometime soon.[However I do accept that I could ask for 
SVN access and do it myself, so its not really a complaint :) ].

David


> The URL is this:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.25964&lon=6.85691&zoom=17&layers=0BFT
>
> HaraldK
>