[Tagging] natural=fell not rendered, alternatives?

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 09:34:24 UTC 2020


On 21/12/2020 07:39, Anders Torger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm doing further mapping of Swedish national parks, now in the 
> mountains, and I have noted that natural=fell (habitat over tree line) 
> is not rendered.
>
> Looking into why it seems that OSM-Carto implementors want more 
> specific landcover tags to be used. ...

This isn't really anything to do with tagging, but I can understand why 
some renderers decide not to render it.

Usage, at least where am I, is hugely problematic: 
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/11nH .

Usage in the Pennines northwest of Leeds is almost exclusively just a 
bunch of names that have been copied from old out-of-copyright NPE 
maps.  The features may be peaks, or patches of moorland, or something 
else again.  If a renderer was to do something with them, it'd probably 
be as "place=locality".

Further west examples like https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/412325588 
correspond better to the wiki definition.  In that example other landuse 
(woodland, heath) is also mapped.

There are also some surprising uses in place of other tags - on 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/368051383 it surely means 
"trail_visibility"!

Best Regards,

Andy





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