[Tagging] Landuse border alignment

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Fri May 14 21:39:33 BST 2010


On 15 May 2010 06:27, Jonas Minnberg <sasq64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Oh and I forgot:
>> >> * landuse=grass overlapping landuse=wood, grass set as layer=-1
>> >
>> > Are you mixing up landuse and land cover by any chance?
>>
>>
>> you're insisting on this one? Yes, you are right: in traditional
>> geoscience landuse is a precise term, it describes the usage of a
>> given area in a generalized way.
>
> Eh, I am not insisting anything - that was an example of bad editing IMHO.
> There really should be tags for rendering-hints to mapnik - until mapnik
> handles everything. That way people could tag correctly and still get the
> appearance they wanted...

He was commenting on my comment about separating land use and land cover tags...




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