[Tagging] City Walls and multipolygons in Osmarender

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Mon May 3 14:39:29 BST 2010


On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Seventy 7 <seventy7 at operamail.com> wrote:
> I have been finishing off some of the city walls in York around here:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.96193&lon=-1.08694&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF
>
> The existing walls have been tagged historic=citywalls which render as a thick grey line in Mapnik and don't render at all in Osmarender. This is an undocumented tag as far as I can tell.
>
> The documented (and therefore correct?) tag is barrier=city_wall, which renders as a thin black line and not as documented in the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dcity_wall)
>
> I think that the thick grey line is more befitting of a city wall and also allows a path to run on top, as per elsewhere in York, but I'm not sure what I should be using - the "correct" one or the "better" one. I'm using both at the moment. Any suggestions?

I personally would map them as buildings, probably with something like
your historic=citywalls added to it.


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