[OSM-newbies] National parks and water

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Wills" <iwil2506 at usyd.edu.au>
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:36 PM
Subject: [OSM-newbies] National parks and water


>
> I have twice come across the problem of being unable to correctly
> indicate a national park or reserve that includes water. In one case
> it was a marine reserve (no fishing etc) off Lord Howe Island -
> essentially an area in the Pacific Ocean and the other it included
> estuaries that are part of a national park.
>
> In the first I made the boundary national_park but only part of the
> boundary shows, the rest looks like ocean
>
> See 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-31.50922&lon=159.05522&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF
>
> In the second the rendering of the national park obscures the water of
> the estuaries. The national park has the following parameters.
>
> boundary national_park
> layer -1
> leisure nature_reserve
>
> See 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.6858&lon=151.16473&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF
>
> Any suggestions?

Ian

perhaps have a look at 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.217&lon=-8.919&zoom=12&layers=B000FTF 
and see how the park there is tagged

David